painting

Painted from an original photo I made in 2011 of a nightclub performance by Vancouver-based model and performer Lola Frost (https://lolafrost.com/)

And the scary part begins... I know this will strike a few people as odd, but the challenge here is not to go hyperreal.

Mary Nolan (b. Mariam Imogene Robertson, 1902)
Model, dancer, and actress.

I threw some colour at this one. Source image in a publicity photo of silent film star Viola Dana (Virginia Flugrath) , c. 1922.

Source image is a photograph of actress Eve Southern published in Picture Play Magazine in 1927. I couldn't find any information on the photographer.

From a photograph of an unknown Weimar-period Berliner, photographer unknown.

I had another plan with where I was going to take this, but decided to stop here because it was working "unfinished" in a way I hadn't planned, opening up a direction I want to explore.