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A suit may be boring to many of us as artists, often because we don't tend to have the sort of jobs where we would wear them as a regular part of our work.
To the man wearing it, however, especially the suit he's chosen to have his portrait painted in, it's anything but boring. A suit can be beautiful. Folds of just the right crispness, fabric not too dull or too shiny, the right shape of jacket, shoulders, lapels... all these are of supreme importance to the man buying an expensive Armani and choosing to wear it for his portrait.
I just finished a portrait of a man in a suit and until I thought about these things I found it to be the most boring part of the painting. Then I remembered how important a suit is to those who wear them and I looked for these subtleties. Then I found that I enjoyed painting the suit that much more.
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