Gouache Portrait of Taylor Kinney from Chicago Fire

I know, this was a silly project. But there’s something about this guy on this show that I find intriguing in an odd sort of way. So I painted him in gouache.

I have no idea what he’s like in real life, but it amuses me how on the show he always has this derpy, slightly perplexed expression, like he isn’t quite sure what’s going on around him. Also that when he started on Chicago Fire he played the angry bad boy and now he plays a kindhearted husband and friend (while still doing all the badass fireman stuff.)

I find it interesting that he was once Lady Gaga’s boyfriend. It’s a little hard to picture them together. She’s such a powerful persona.

Chicago Fire and Chicago Med are both dumb, guilty pleasures I enjoy. My usual TV fare is Britbox European detective shows and Nordic noir.