Today I decided to see how closely Apotheoun conforms to the original 1981 slide image, with a GIF animation.
Well the result is it does not perfectly conform, which is interesting, and human, I suppose. There is some distortion which suggests I at least did not project the reference or paint over a photo. Maybe that's a good thing
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Anywhere there is movement apparent, the painting varies slightly from the photo reference. This technique could be instructive in the future with other portrait projects.
Gosh, is this too revealing?
Garth