This is a portrait of Hans Hofmann that I made sometime in mid December. This was during a period of understanding Hofmann's theories and development of his work, which sparked my interest when I found his book titled Search for the Real. Long story short, it was worth the purchase and it certainly contributed to the development of my own work. This was from a photograph image in a book called Hofmann, there's at least 5 of these books with the same title. Originally I wanted to create a portraiture in the same tradition he did; colorful and expressive. In the process I noticed how realized the portrait looked even with a monochromatic pallet and continued working only with black and white.