Ashes in the Snow--painting

This is my first painting of 2011.
The idea came about when I found an old drawing of mine from early last year in a sketchbook. It was still very rudimentary as a drawing, but I still found a special value in it. It had a very kinetic feel. The neck's still kind of freaky, though.

I used photo reference for this piece. This portrait by photographer Mick van de Wiel had a very revealing, emotional quality that I wanted to interpret in my own way.