PORTRAIT AS EXPRESSIONIST EXPERIMENT

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The Lioness in Winter/The Model in Her Springtime

        THE LIONESS IN WINTER  1.   HOW SHOULD THE OLDER WOMAN BE PAINTED? I love the challenge of painting the woman, or man, of a certain age.   I don’t go for   typecasting the elderly subject as saint, venerable old sod, or ancient harridan, not  being such an admirer of fixed… read more

“Character” Portrait of an Old Woman

                                                            The Wisdom of Her Years   (Oil on Canvas)   MODELS WEARING HATS. THE  GENERAL HOKIENESS OF  COSTUME DRAMA, ETC. Working in an art club group, sharing the studio,  one has to go along with the consensus of how to pose the model. So that’s what I do. But I can’t buy into the… read more

WHAT EXACTLY IS A PORTRAIT?

    ROBIN, STUDY IN BLUE     For the past year I have been painting one-sitting renderings of the live model in which the head  certainly takes central focus. Nevertheless each of these paintings is not  what I think of as being a “portrait” in the traditional sense. I gravitate to the human landscape,… read more

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