Beach Sketches, Sydney Ocean and Waves Portraits
Man of Peace

This has occupied a lot of the start of 2016.  I did a double portrait in outlines of my subject, Stuart Rees, peace negotiator, author, university professor (ret.) and co-founder of the Sydney Peace Institute and the Sydney Peace Prize. Stuart is friend of a good friend of mine who suggested that we should meet and that I should do his portrait.  Since he has one of the most interesting and expressive faces of anyone I've met, I was pleased to try.  I like the version in overlapping outlines where I settled for two images that express some of his many contemplative looks, but then I did a second version, also a double portrait, also with overlapping outlines, but with more shapes and colours, making more solid, but still overlapping portraits.

Above is first one: Man of Peace in Outlines.

Below is the second one: Man of Peace.