handsome women

February 10.2009

In conversation with the model, she told us that she is not always fond of having her portrait done as her face in repose looks stern or sad when it's not how she's feeling.  She likes to think of her face as handsome which she has lived with since she was a little girl saying "It's not always been an easy face to live with."  When I returned home from class that day a friend had sent me Alfred Stieglitz's photos of Georgia O'Keeffe, another handsome woman.  The placement of these two events was magnetic.

February 03. 2009

This is a drawing of the model with a drawing of her fiance in the background.  I became interested as I noticed the couple looked like Mary Magdalene and Jesus or maybe me and my beloved?

February 16, 2009

Another blind contour painting which bears a likeness

in a surprising way.  

Mixed Media Portraiture Class with Martha Miller

I decided to do a blind contour drawing with paint and then finished it while looking.  I enjoyed what appeared and found that the process led me in new ways.