#6 and #7: Neurotic Picasso and Accompanying Comment

I've been feeling like painting a portrait of Picasso for a good long while, and figured heck, now is the time to get started. Obviously, it's not finished, but I'm actually very happy with the result-in-progress.

Just so you know what I was going for aesthetics-wise, I wanted it to have a naïv-y, Alice Neel-y, Alex Katz-y, Elizabeth Peyton-y, deadpan look. It definitely needs more work (a little extra cubist distortion, perhaps? To give the man a taste of his own medicine, as Johan put it?), but I got started. That's what counts.

As for the comment about Picasso, it rings true, right? At least to me it does. But then again, I wrote it.