Gender profiling

Being mostly unseen means being largely uncelebrated for a couple of American icons.

160 years in the making

This portrait bag only took a few months to create.  It’s what it represents that’s been 160 years in the making…

Your eyes were watching you.

I always knew portraits had a particular power, but now I have a team of psychologists at the University of Newcastle to back me up!

Putting your best FACE forward

Certain expressions are better for portraits than others.  In choosing a source photo from which to work, it’s crucial to think of the subject’s character and what you want to say about her-him, but it’s equally important to pick an expression that will work well in paint.

The separation of subject and portrait

It’s impossible to divorce a person from her-his face.  More than any other physical feature, a person’s visage comes to represent her-him as well as everything she-he believed in and stood for.  In that way, portraits have a certain extra power.  More than just the expression of the artist, a likeness wields the full force of the subject’s character.

The portraitist portrayed…

...because it doesn’t hurt to have the tables turned once in a while.  Portland improv group Super Project Lab did it to me live on stage at the Winningstad last night.

A funny kind of family

I’m not the kind of artist who can work on just one painting at a time: my studio has to be full of half-made faces or I can’t paint. 

Portrait of the artist as Web 2.0.

Artist Geoffrey Raymond turns portraits into a platform for comment and captures a moment in history. 

in-famous

On the wrong way to build a reputation as a portraitist and the only real way to be a successful artist.

Before and AFTER: Heart Transplant

The story of a heart transplant surgery told in two paintings.

Why is portraiture kept apart?

According to art historian Charlotte Mullins, one of these paintings is a portrait and the other is not.  Mullins’ explanation of just why is as revealing as it is nonsensical.

A Brief History

A Brief History opened this evening at the Littman Gallery!

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