Portrait of Roger

I did this portrait of my friend Roger a couple of days ago. Roger lives at the Oak River Rehab Center which is about 20 minutes from my house. I play the piano every other Tuesday for Roger and his fellow residents and they are a wonderful audience. He is 94 years old and spent WWII on a Navy ship which was sunk by the German Navy. He and a dozen or so fellow sailors floated around in a lifeboat for about 30 days. By the time they reached land there were only Roger and two others still alive and one of his surviving buddies just happened to speak Portuguese, which came in quite handy since they washed up on the coast of Brazil. I was pretty happy with the results of this portrait, as it captured his spirit. It was painted in acrylic on Raymar board, which is a nice canvas surface on masonite.



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