A Portion of One Steak's Journey

Today i picked out another fine piece of beef for photo references. 

And set up a space, the hallway was the darkest place in my house in the afternoon ( working around model's schedule & timing for starting the piece)

(above) one candidate for the next painting. still have to go through the photos again to find which works best.

 man & meat... after the shoot back to the kitchen

My brother was eager to begin preparing  the meat for it's final decent into our stomachs...I'll let you know how it was.
No meat has been wasted during the production of this series.