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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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Release

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The tradition of the wild party for New Years probably has something to do with the idea of catharsis, an explosive releasing of pent-up emotion through acting out.  We want to exhaust the frustration, regrets and resentments of the ending year by burning off the lingering energy to awaken to a fresh new day.  Of [...]

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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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Time and Line

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

In an essay I wrote in 1999 I said “Drawing records something photography does not – the movement of perception in time.”  Every mark made in drawing represents a moment of seeing or of imagination.  The energy of the artist’s strokes convey to a viewer something of the energy of the creative act.  I want [...]

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