A return to gessoed canvas...

Over the last few months, I have done a few painting projects on primed canvas. Jack Johnson, from Galveston Texas, the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion caught my interest recently, as he was way ahead of his time as a person of color in the early 1900's...

  I also took the opportunity to explore some textural effects, using standard acrylic gels (on raw canvas, I favour honey-like self-leveling gels)...