The Mechanic

Oil on canvas

24in x 24in

The patron specifically asked me to paint it with "as toxic of pigments as possible" so the reds and yellows are cadmiums, the green is cadmium and cobalt (a true double-whammy of a tube if I've ever gotten one), and the black is lamp black that I suspected was made from burnt tires (as that's what it smelled like). I was not able to track down a lead white for this, unfortunately.

2017, Portraiture, Geometric