A Portrait of Betty McMillan

23 December 2015, 7am

I just realised this painting had never been put up on my blog, so here it is.

It's a perversion of a well-known portrait. I did it because I thought I could learn something from the process. I did. So many oil layers I lost count. The razor has removed Marcel Duchamp’s mustache (is this the beginning of post-post-post-modernism?). What’s that in the background? Notice anything else unusual?

 

"A Portrait of Betty McMillan"
530x770       22/2/2005

It's the same size as the original. Why Betty McMillan? Contrast.