Vegas Lounge: The Blog

I’ve discovered that I seem to do a lot of likenesses and portraits in my work and would like to expand on that a little– because, among other things, you can get pretty good magazine work if you can come up with a good likeness in a not “totally copied from a photograph” kind of way. So, in this vein, I have a few plans for semi-iconic/religious portraits of celebrities and other”icons”. The first one will be Bettie Page as St. Mary Magdalene:

One of the major parallels that made me associate the two (besides the obvious “sinner converted to religion” angle) is that Mary Magdalene, during her conversion, wandered the wilderness clad only in her hair (as the painting depicts); I feel that one of Bettie Page’s true trademarks was her unique hairstyle. I’m going to start on this soon, as it’s Spring Break and I have nothing else to do, so we’ll see how it works out!