thanks Jim... I don't know what I was trying to do. My wife constantly tells me that I should loosen up and paint modern...Bla...bla..bla...
So I painted the portrait first... and decided that the pose sucked... so I had to do something to save the painting.
She is a performance art painter and one of her paintings was of a circuit board... so I decided to incorporate her personality into the painting...then I just played with the paint a bit on the rest of it
This is a portrait of a young woman that started out as a basic painting of the person. However as it progressed I realized that the pose was awkward and unflattering. So I set it aside and left it for a couple of weeks. When I returned from an out of town trip ...having thought about the painting while traveling, I made some significant changes. These being the implied electronic circuit board and the background that emerges from the circuit board to the frazzled space...
Your comments would be appreciated