With no formal training, my usual style of painting has been to use hand-cut stencils taken from photographs and spray paint the canvas.  For this painting, I thought I would go freestyle and try to paint without the use of a stencil.  I did, however, use a basic outline of a photograph of Barry Larkin in portrait and action to get the correct proportions.  One photograph was a close-up of his face and the other was an action shot of him in the infield.  After setting up the placement for the portrait and the action shot and with the use of the computer adding coloring for the shadows, mid-tones and highlights I began painting.  The canvas size is 12 x 24 and for most of the painting I used acrylic paints.  For the lettering and star I used my tried and true method of hand-cut stencils and spray paint.

Here is the end result.

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I like to think, when viewed from afar, the painting is a pretty good likeness of the Hall of Fame short stop.  Enjoy!