September 2024

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a digital shoulders-up portrait of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, based on a famous photograph of him standing in front of a chalkboard. he is a thin light-skinned middle-aged man with short brown hair, dressed in a button-up shirt and a blazer, facing the viewer and looking at them with piercing dark eyes. the painting is done with broad brushstrokes and employs a slightly surreal color palette of shades of dusty and navy blue, brown, dark purple, and pale lemon yellow.ALT

commission for @devils-musings, who is writing a screenplay about Ludwig Wittgenstein and requested a rendering of a photograph of him in my style to help them stay inspired! it’s not often that i get to paint portraits of real people, especially historical figures, so this was a fascinating challenge. thank you so much for commissioning me 💜