anselm kiefer

I originally wasn't sure if I wanted to keep this portrait black and white or paint it...I liked the starkness, but sometimes painting can be a hell of a lot of fun...I love the feeling of loose abandon you can get from it, especially after working in pen on comics panels for so long, which can be fun in retrospect, but at the time feels sort of like an exercise regiment. Plus, you don't ever get the happy accidents in comics that really expressive painting can deliver.



Anselm Kiefer, by the way, is one of my absolute favorite artists.