Dad reading at home

Dad, when not maintaining this website or cooking dinner or playing computer games or posting on Twitter or researching the next essay he needs to write for his current studies – occasionally finds time to read a book. I’ve shown him in one of the lounge chairs in the family room with his back to Mum’s desk. He used not have a beard but came back from an archaeology dig in Vanuatu with it so I thought I should capture this avatar before it disappears.

I was going to do a more resolved background but Dad liked the cubism of the unfinished background so I left it at that.

i’ve been doing mainly landscapes lately so am doing a few family portraits to get my eye and hand back into portraits.

Oil on board 9”x12” – private collection

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