Blue Matter: Freud's portrait of Hockney

A tribute to two titans. Lucian Freud painting David Hockney's portrait. Hockney calculated that over the course of several months he sat for Freud for 120 hours. On the painting Hockney remarks “All the hours I sat were layered into it; he had always added, rarely taken anything away,”

Digital - 5000 x 3539

Total brush strokes made - 23082