This is one of my first full size portrait painting. The 'selfie' is a good source as any for reference material. It also confronts the reality of current age compared to the memory of a younger self image. 

Wizard light is inspired by the Getty museum small work by the painter Gerrit Dou: “Astronomer by Candlelight”

A black out that lasted several hours made me think of the day when the technology would be used to light hand written text on paper.