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Rhapsody-In-White — Maestro Barbolin

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Published: 2016-09-30 21:02:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 263; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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Description On March 6, I met a famous tango maestro of St. Petersburg at a gran milonga. He was looking damn like Mercer Frey, and I, being a fandom baby even at a milonga, gathered my guts and asked him if I could take a photo and paint his portrait. He agreed, and after all, we made a good acquaintance due to that. He even invited me for a dance; for you all to know, being invited by a maestro from another city is a great luck and an exceptional honour (especially when you are me, a tango timberwood ).
After I got my reference, I started paiting - but got stuck in the beginning. That was a shame, I knew. But I could not bring myself to drawing it. He was still looking like Mercer, and I've had no desire to do anything related with Mercer and TES for a long time, 'cause my heart was stormed and destroed by Mass Effect.
Tomorrow, Alexey Barbolin comes to my town again, now for another gran milonga and a related series of masterclasses (which I will not attend since I desied to spend money prepared for them on an Xbox HDD for Inquisition ), and it's my chance to pay the debt: I have done it.

I had to wait SIX MONTHS and finish everything in about five hours.

Quite an uncommon technique for me. I'm proud of what I've got at last. Maybe my best work by now.
Impressionism can't be cured.  
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Comments: 5

Skyflower51 [2016-10-01 18:32:40 +0000 UTC]

This is a really fantastic portrait! It's so detailed and beautifully coloured, especially around the eyes... really lovely background, too. Yours is a beautiful style, both realistic and stylised at the same time, and I love it. I'm sure the maestro will be very impressed!
(And wow... he does look like Mercer. )

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Rhapsody-In-White In reply to Skyflower51 [2016-10-01 19:20:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! I've posted this onto my VK page with a lil' note 'hey I also paint people for money help me out so I could afford tango events', and I've immediately got a load of requests along with the invitation to attend the rest of his lessons. And Mr. Barbolin himself was so impressed that invited me to paint his dancers at milongas of St. Petersburg and take lessons for free, saying 'you're so talented and deserve better'. Wow. Finally my obsession with art have made something good!!

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Skyflower51 In reply to Rhapsody-In-White [2016-10-01 19:50:17 +0000 UTC]

!!!!!! Wow! That's absolutely incredible, I'm so happy for you! You are indeed amazingly talented and you do deserve this, so enjoy it! And... good luck handling all those requests.

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Rhapsody-In-White In reply to Skyflower51 [2016-10-01 20:00:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks again! I haven't yet finished my summer commissions and your meme with Guillaume and Zevran. I wouldn't expect being fast from me.

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Skyflower51 In reply to Rhapsody-In-White [2016-10-02 13:20:59 +0000 UTC]

Well, whenever they appear, I look forward to seeing them! Especially the meme.

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