Sherlock

Hello again everyone! Apologies for the lack of posts the past few months, a lot has been going on in my life since you last heard from me. I'd rather not go into too much detail, but both my personal and professional lives have been full of activity and I have not had too much time for the personal projects that I love to do so much. Luckily though I did manage to find time to create a new acrylic portrait of my new obsession, Benedict Cumberbatch (I call him Benny, and he can call me whatever he wants).

I have always loved detective stories. When I was in elementary school I used to sign out Encyclopedia Brown books from the school library and spend hours and hours trying to figure out the answers to all of the mysteries. When I finally discovered the stories of Sherlock Holmes I had found a set of mysteries that I would never grow too old for, and I fell in love. To this day I will read any Sherlock Holmes story, no matter how many times I have already read it, and I will be genuinely entertained every time.

I have seen many big screen/TV versions of Sherlock Holmes over the years, and I have enjoyed them all, but NO ONE plays Sherlock the way that Benny does. He makes you hate him and love him at the same time. And those cheekbones! Yea, I am a little obsessed, but Sherlock is a fantastic show and if you haven't seen it before I highly recommend watching it!

I hope you enjoy this portrait, and if you want to learn more about Sherlock here is the website for the show: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/