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Do your features and personality come out in your paintings of others?
At the suggestion of Alex, I thought I would start this thread.
How much of yourself comes through in your paintings of other people. Does everyone you paint have a look of you?
Leonardo da Vinci, apparently, looks very much like the Mona Lisa. In fact, some have suggested it is a self-portrait in disguise.
Are each of your paintings in some way autobiographical?
And, lastly, what makes a portrait painting more important - the painter who painted it or the sitter who sat for it? For example, do we look at Andy Warhol's images of Marilyn Monroe because of the actress or the artist?
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