Adam, after Michelangelo. One of my old watercolors.

Like most of my artwork, it's unfinished, was never intended to be finished. It was an exercise by which I hoped to teach myself the technique of making those subtle gradations of light and dark so prominent in Michelangelo.


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UPDATE:

I had cropped too much, so I went back and fixed it.

Looking again at the original by Michelangelo, it looks much more colorful than my version. There could be several reasons for that: limitations of my technique, limitations of watercolor as a medium, limitations of my photography (I shot it under rather dim incandescent light), etc. But I suspect the major reason is that I worked from a reproduction made before the Sistine Chapel ceiling was cleaned. At the time of the cleaning there was a lot of controversy, because the paintings were coming out far brighter and more vivid than anyone expected.