Thank you all very much. I'm glad you like it.
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Originally Posted by Allan Rahbek
It's beautiful, David.
I like the simplicity and elegance, the great variety of edges and the subtle value changes.
At first I thought it was an oil.  |
Allan, that makes me
very happy. I really need more color work in my portfolio - for a future website, contacts with brokers, etc. - and though I'm currently in the middle of two oils, it is going painfully slow. This was only about 20 hours, so now, I think if I can knock out 4 or 5 of these pastels - well, it would be great for said portfolio.
Alex, thanks so much! I know we've discussed this before, but I really believe that if you look -
really look - at any individual, there is great beauty there. On the surface, some appear to be more beautiful than others. But at the heart of it, I think every human being is essentially... noble (though, at times, we have ways of not living up to our potential...
) and it is that nobility, that excellence, that quiet, penetrating beauty that I am mostly interested in depicting. And I'm happy you think they don't come off as being idealized...I do worry about that.
I notice that when my students do a series of life drawings, with them each taking turns posing; or when they do each others' portraits - I can tell that they gain a whole new appreciation and respect for the student that they are drawing. By intently gazing, and constantly "repeating the gaze," they see qualities in each other that they hadn't noticed before. It's wonderful...magic. The power of art.
David
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