Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Painting Portraits from a Different Perspective

"Hannah" 
Oil on Canvas, 6" sq., c. Catherine Vines 
   
Lest you think this is just another beautiful face, you should know she is also a gifted professional magician from a mutil-generational family of magicians. Who would have guessed? Her husband, also a magician, is a regular performer on "Letterman."
Do I live in an interesting neighborhood or what?
Her brown hair was so interesting to paint, a rich dark color with a variety of highlights. And that long column of a neck....

2 comments:

  1. I'm seeing really good things evolving in your portraits! This is a really hard perspective but it has so much dynamism. I'm assuming you've captured this dynamic woman's personality beautifully!

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  2. Thanks so much. Progress can be such an elusive dream that I'm glad you see something happening. The last thing I want is to paint the same thing (so to speak) the same way over and over. My latest goal is to have a more painterly -less literal - surface.

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