In 2016, I was obsessed with Hamilton the musical by Lin Manuel Miranda. That fall I took a portraiture class in oil painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. My first project was a replica of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull (after painting by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1801), currently at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

​I (accidentally) added more tension in his face and deepened the furrow of his brows, as the future of our country was more uncertain than ever that year.

The Original

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Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

Works in Progress​

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Underpainting in burnt sienna and white
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It’s all about the face
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Dressing for success