This year i am entering the Archibald, i have been looking at previous entrants and winners to gauge an idea of what is loved and what is hated. Last year Craig Ruddy won the Peoples Choice award with his painting of Warick Thornton.
I absolutely love this work, he has captured the colours of what i associate with aboriginals, very earthy and radiant. I feel his left eye has been painted slightly wrong, his right eye captures your eye and draws you in where as his left eye the detail is a bit blurred because of the light. I feel the iris should have been darker even if the photo he took showed it as very light. I think portraits should predominantly have there focal point on the eyes because when in looking and talking to someone that is where ones eyes are drawn to. So much emotion is able to be seen in another person eyes and all the muscles around them.
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