The Beat acrylic street musician portrait

                                                                          The Beat
                                                                           9"x12"
                                                                          Acrylic
Forgot to say, we made it through the storm and were very fortunate.  Many here in Atlanta lost power due to falling trees.  I guess we were in a less hectic area and got out of the yellow hand sooner so lucky we did not lose power but for a couple of hiccups.  Just 4 inches of rain and some gusty rains.

Here is the third in my street musician series.  I think this is another New Orleans French Quarter performer.  Ok, I might have gone a bit over the edge in this one, but .. you gotta go with the flow.  Originally I was going to have another spread the paint background of greens and blues, then last minute decided since he looked so classy and kind of elegant I wanted to contrast him with some real street graffiti.  Now I am not fluent in street language so I am hoping that I didn't write something really bad here.

Got to admit that I cheated a bit with the strings of the bass.  I put them in with gel pen and then did some color washes over the top of them to kick them back a bit.

Have a couple more of these planned and am definitely having lots o fun with them.  for whatever reason this series has allowed me to just paint, don't think about it, just let the brush do its thing.  Not getting all hung up on technical things, just trying to feel.  This one because of the designs got a bit more tight than I wanted, but plan on loosening back up on the next one.  Got to consciously think of that and not fall back into the detail trap.

Hope you enjoy it and thanks much for taking a look.