MichaelWhelan ,
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THE DARK TOWER: WALTER (2004)
Oil on Panel - 12" x 9"

I rarely use people I know as models, but one night my friend Jack Koffman was visiting the studio and I noticed that when the light hit Jack a certain way, he looked like a perfect model for the character Walter in THE DARK TOWER VII. 1/2

With hood up, the light catches Walter from the right casting shadows across his face. His head is tilted forward with eyes fixed on the audience, intensity locked in the set of his stare. On his chest a glossy button is pinned with the stylized eye of the Crimson king in dark red on white. On the opposite breast are buttons with a peace sign, a smiley face with bleeding from a bullet hole in the forehead, and a simple black "CK" on purple. The detail of the bust portrait emerges from a thin wash of red showing through in the background to the texture of canvas.
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