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Painting Chanel

Earlier this year I announced I’d be painting Teach Us Consent founder and CEO, Chanel Contos. This work was completed and, in this post, I’m sharing the development of the piece. Upon accepting my request…

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Film still from Rise Up. Annaliese McGuire @annaliesemcguire and HMA by Christina @diamonddiversity This is another concept for Chanel’s portrait. If anyone has seen the previous posts on similar sketches, you may be wondering, where is the final compositional sketch? Well, the simple answer is that there isn’t one. So, when we got to the photoshoot location and Chanel began posing, the composition changed then and there, and we came up with something we thought was better. Portrait of Chanel Contos. Founder and CEO of Teach.Us.Consent. Close-up progress shot. Oil on wood. You can see more of the process work I did for Chanel’s portrait in a recent journal post I published on my website. Go to the link in my bio; you’ll find a direct link to the article. This is another inky sketch. It’s done on 300gsm cold press paper. In the final portrait, Chanel wears a pair of jeans with the title Toxic Masculinity printed on the inner seam of her jeans. Chanel and I had discussed that I’d like to portray her wearing those jeans. So, with these ink sketches, I was looking for poses where we could use those jeans. These ink sketches helped direct our intentions for the completed painting.