"Stipe Three" is an original, signed acrylic painting on a gallery-wrapped canvas by Citrus County Florida artist Michael Arnold

This is the third painting in my Michael Stipe series. I painted the background using a painting knife loaded with modeling paste and a mix of yellow oxide, cadmium yellow medium and buff titanium. I placed lines of red oxide, permanent green light and phthalocyanine blue side by side to build up the various tones for the portrait. I used touches of cadmium yellow light and medium to add some highlights and finished it off with pure yellow oxide to punch up the neutral tones. The finished result is a unique portrait painting, which uses a mixture of Impressionism and a variation of Pointillism to create form.