This is a closeup of my portrait of David Lynch. I featured it on my illustration website at micaangela.com because I needed to get some portraiture in my portfolio. I wanted to paint someone with an interesting face, and although many people come to mind, David Lynch's face was always fascinating to me. He always seems to look simultaneously terrified, exhausted, deep in thought, and tickled pink. I think I made him look a little too angry, though. He seems like quite a strange dude, but it works for me. I used to be glued to Twin Peaks--it was the first series I actually followed. So I loved painting his face! Some faces are just so fun to paint; their faces are like roadmaps...Tom Waits, Steve Buscemi, Orson Welles, and Leonard Cohen come to mind. Neat faces...Neat. Big fan.
