Original acrylic painting on board, ready to hang with chord fastened to the back.

Signed on the front.

I'm painting the 100 heads art challenge during 2024, and this painting of JRR Tolkien is no 16.
Asked if I “have inspiration to paint older people…”
“Just to see what you would make of it. Faces that have seen things, that have lived through all kinds of stuff...”
As I was thinking about who to paint it occurred to me that there’s a few kinds of old…like old as in “days gone by” kind of old, people from the past at whatever age their image was captured, and as in years, like older in their life - having lived through many years with many stories to tell, and so any combination of the two would work.
I thought I’d start the ball rolling with my favourite author, J.R.R Tolkien in his older years…there’s some great pics of him as his younger self too, but I’ll leave that for another day