Part of a new series of brightly colored paintings based on models
watercolor portrait
Messing around with watercolors– Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, 1621
I painted this using Leoni’s portrait of Carravaggio. He was 31 at the time. He died 9 years later, a victim of his propensity for violence. Her revolutionized painting with his observation of the subject together with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro, intense contrasts of light and dark. This came to be known as tenebrism, where the darks are a dominant feature of the piece.