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
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“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