Conánn FitzPatrick

There are images and there are perfect images, it is easy to write off an artist as blessed or lucky but there is one artist that stuns me. Steve McCurry works hard for every image he creates and I feel bad every time I look at my efforts to learn from his photographs. When I set out to paint a version of this photograph from his book of portraits I new I wanted to capture the mood and setting of the original painting, but I also wanted to do so without blurring the paint to create the depth of field found in the original photograph. I decided to experiment with mixing two painting styles for the background landscape and the foreground character.