He immediately looked like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to me. But a prof works too--hard to imagine this as a guy who's NOT in the arts, the life of the mind, in some way.
Lately, I've been using life drawing as a starting place for works that combine reality, imagination and experience.
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More good drawing-- a universal subject: every man's favorite pastime.
ReplyDeleteLove the colors.
ReplyDeleteGreat one. I can feel the weight of his fatigue
ReplyDeleteDramatic...really love the colors !
ReplyDeleteHe looks like my Joyce prof from college.
ReplyDeleteThanks, all.
ReplyDeleteAH, maybe he is, if your prof moved to Chicago and became a painter.
Linda, it does look like that. So funny.
Lovely - it really is. You should be proud.
ReplyDeleteThanks, PA.
ReplyDeleteI am gradually building a series of portraits of the local painters.
He immediately looked like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to me. But a prof works too--hard to imagine this as a guy who's NOT in the arts, the life of the mind, in some way.
ReplyDeleteVonnegut is who I was thinking, too.
ReplyDeleteI think it is the hair because face not particularly similar.
i like both lavendar/gold + black /gold great drawn and figure
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking a younger Mark Twain!!! Really nicely done Jean...just enough detail...perfect colors and shading...you are sooo talented!!!
ReplyDeleteTwain and Vonnegut! Never thought of that, but it just might be a Ph.D. dissertation for some youngster.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jane and Chieftess.
ReplyDeleteTwain works too. Actually better.
Banjo, dissertation topics always welcome. One never knows when one will be needed.