Continuing the Artist Study assignment, our second and last paint was to paint any subject we wanted to while still referencing the same artist we chose for our self-portrait. Now Matt Hughe has a style he calls Dark Romanticism. This is based on the Romanticism style of painting, which is usually a dark background with the main subject in very lighter colors. Now Hughes takes a more dark approach to this style, usually with a darker subject matter.
Now for this painting, I actually had to restart because the first idea I had was a more landscape subject but after doing the under-painting and starting the color blocking I couldn’t keep painting. So I changed course and decided to do another skeleton subject as I really like painting bones. I felt a lot better about this piece. The flowers gave me a bit of trouble, but I decided to make make it a bit more abstract and they turned out really well.