Freud
I remember doing this portrait and after looking at his actual coloring, I thought to myself, there is a deeper darkness of color within his emotional being and I’d rather catch that than what is obvious. After sketching out his skeletal bones and the muscles of his face I decided to feature an inner shadow, much like a mask, and only give hints of flesh tonality at random places, which was quite the opposite of what most people would render. Upon seeing this, artist Barbara Baum gasped at it’s bleakness. I revealed to her that this is how I see the inner part of of his character. Later on, I found out, that this brave man was truly sick and barely alive, stricken with the flu.
