After the man appeared I knew I wanted to call the painting "Man in a grey flannel suit" but it felt ever so slightly familiar to me so I googled it and found that The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit was a 1956 American film based on the 1955 novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson. My mum loved American films so it might have been hidden in the deep recesses of my memory bank. Anyway, that's what it is. I think there's a little dog in the centre.
I like that the painting is not pretty but for me that it has some presence, maybe like a painting that has always stuck in my mind - Hockney's very early work of his friend, Peter Crutch, and like a lot of his early work has a lot of gravitas - for me even more than his later years. Sometimes it's not important to "like" something but to keep being drawn back into it. If it raises questions in your head then that is what art is about.
After working some more on the above painting the man still has his grey flannel suit but has sprouted a pair of gossamer (not crow) wings. The "little dog" seems to be no longer around. Got bored I suppose.
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