Oil Portrait

In a previous post I mentioned that I had had a watercolor portrait done as a prop for Così Fan Tutte by George Van Hook, a local artist in based in Cambridge, New York. All six of us in the cast got to be good friends with George over the course of the five weeks we spent in that small town, and just before we left he offered to paint an oil portrait of each of us. This was a once-in-a-lifetime offer that I simply couldn't pass up, so I went to his studio and sat for him for about two hours. It was such an incredible experience and it is something that I can hold on to for my whole life to remind me of Brian at age 27. Here is the end product:


So now the question is: what do I do with it? I need to get it framed, but then what? I don't know how I feel about putting a portrait of myself up on my wall, declaring to all that enter, "BEHOLD ME IN MY GLORY!" (Although by posting it on my blog I guess I'm pretty much doing the same thing.) My whole apartment is completely undecorated (if you don't count the bull horns Seth put on top of the T.V.) so it would really stand out. If you have any suggestions of what I should do with my painting, please comment below.

P.S. - It's a shame that when the portrait was done I hadn't yet picked up my free John Deere hat - I could have been immortalized in that.