Intense Imp Twink, 9x12 inches watercolor on cotton paper by Kenney Mencher
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This small original watercolor is of a handsome young man sometimes referred to in the gay community as a "twink." Twink is gay slang for a gay man in his late teens to twenties whose traits may include a slim to average physique, a youthful appearance that may belie an older age, having little or no body hair, flamboyancy, and general physical attractiveness. This work is painted by first sketching out the figure with a lithographic crayon and then applying successive layers of watercolor over the crayon to create shading and color.
The paper that this is painted on is called Rives BFK, which is a type of heavy cotton printmaking paper that won't degrade over time and should hold the color really well for at least fifty to one hundred years without fading, especially if this is framed behind glass.
Portraits like this are one of my favorite things to paint. This goes all the way back to my childhood when I had a wonderful teacher in junior high school who invited me to stay late after school and he spent an hour and a half going over the proportions of the face and the individual features of the face.
This lesson was so inspiring that for years after that I spent a good part of my free time drawing interesting and beautiful faces out of magazines and photo books for years. When I got older, I learned the fundamentals of figure drawing and painting and I was able to grow expand my repertoire but faces are still a favorite subject for me. In this case, sometimes you just must do a kind of character study of an interesting face.
Later in high school, I had an awesome teacher named Irwin Greenberg, who along with Max Ginsburg, ran an early morning atelier they called the "Old Hat Painting Club" that started around 6am and ran until school started at 9 or 10. They would do demonstrations and we would paint from live models. "Greeny" taught us the fundamentals of painting in watercolor and oil and would show us works by Rembrandt, Velasquez, Charles Pfahl, Sargent and others to inspire us. Ginsburg and Greeny would choose one of the students to model and we would all chip 25 cents to paint from a live model.
The size is a standard US frame size and can be framed inexpensively. Try buying a frame on the net.
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