The next (huge) task in painting my Dad’s portrait was to meld the many photographic references into a single coherent whole.   I needed to get the head, arms, torso orientation all into similar sizes and then try to get them to connect to each other in a reasonable way. If I were a better Photoshop practitioner, this might have been a snap.  But my attempts were so lame that I seriously considered resorting to cut and paste.

Here are a few of my horrible Photoshop mashups, along with my much more useful iPad sketches.

stacking the pieces into a rough order

stripping out the extraneous stuff

stacking the consolidated torso over the table pose

first try at iPad version

the final one of several efforts to unify the elements into a composition