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Empathic Portraits

Monday, March 8, 2010

To draw a portrait from life is about more than just reproducing the shapes that constitute the model’s appearance.  It has to capture the look of the person, to be a recognizable likeness.  But I want my portraits to go beyond likeness, to suggest a mind full of thoughts and a heart full of feelings.
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Escape

Friday, January 29, 2010

Escape Into Life, a blog that I recommend highly as a place to discover fresh and interesting artists and writers, has featured my drawings in their Artist Watch section.  They made a nice selection, and I’m honored to be included there!

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Self Portrait

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

This is a self-portrait, drawn in 40 minutes this past Sunday evening.  The version above has been flipped across the vertical axis so it appears as I appear to others, rather than as I see myself in a mirror.  My self-portraits always look a bit angry.  I think it’s just the intensity of the artist’s [...]

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Redrawing

Monday, November 9, 2009

Readers have told me they like posts that show my process, even though this means posting drawings I’d never exhibit.  I remember as a child seeing an art book that had a series of black-and-white photographs showing multiple stages of Henri Matisse’s reworking of a painting of a seated woman in a long dress.  This [...]

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Opening the Closed Pose

Friday, October 30, 2009

Some figurative artists dislike “closed” poses, and complain when the models take these positions.  They may feel the models are shutting them out.  The face and soft frontal torso are hidden, and the back becomes a protective shell, as in the defensive balling-up of a hedgehog or armadillo, or a turtle retreating into its shell.  [...]

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