a New mistake

I made a mistake I hadn’t made before! And hopefully won’t do it again – unless I want to do it intentionally.

The assignment today in class: paint like Frank Auerbach (b.1931). In reading about him, I saw that Frank Auerbach “inherited” his paint studio from Leon Kossoff. Cool.

Frank Auerbach:

and my effort, below. The mistake? I was working from a photo and the photo was flat on my work table – so the head ended up wider/distorted!