The Life and Art of Derek Alvarez
Monique and I have been missing our little Chihuahua/Dachshund mix dog, Charlie Parker (we left him with Monique’s Dad since we moved to Albania)… so I painted this from a photo we took a couple years earlier. I originally planned on an entirely different color scheme, but I liked this one so much that I [...]
Why a tomato plant, you ask? You’re not the first one to wonder! I actually have a funny story about that… I had already finished my painting of Monique in Red Hat and was starting this tomato painting when our friend Isli came in. Monique showed him both paintings and he waved the tomato painting [...]
This is the first oil painting I’ve created since 2006. Sure, I’ve created acrylic paintings, crayon paintings, I’ve even created digital paintings… but oil is where the magic happens. For my first oil painting subject, I chose my wife, Monique. Monique likes to wear hats and one of my favorites is this red one… I [...]
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