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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My name is Gwenn Seemel. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA. I’m a full-time artist and I’ve sold my soul to the genre of portraiture. I blog in French as well as in English. More...
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