Face Making

Artist Gwenn Seemel’s bilingual blog about all the faces she makes while painting faces.

Le blog de l’artiste peintre franco-américaine Gwenn Seemel. Les articles sont en anglais et en français, et souvent ils sont bilingues.


Signature style

Monday 30 March 2009 - Comments / Commentaires (4)

signature


To sign the front or the back of a painting, that is the question!


The art less made

Monday 23 March 2009 - Comments / Commentaires (1)

portrait of an old man


Two roads diverge in the art wood: one is all sadness and melodrama, the other is shades of happiness made from sunshine and silver linings.  I prefer to take the one less traveled by. 


Judging my own book by its cover.

Thursday 19 March 2009 - Comments / Commentaires (7)

Apple Pie the book


The Oregon Arts Commission made the second edition of the Apple Pie book possible financially, but it was Dynagraphics that made it real—and really pretty.  I can’t decide whether the Commission or my printer is my most favorite!


The most important person in the world.

Monday 16 March 2009 - Comments / Commentaires (1)

close-up photograph of a man's eyes


When a sales guru understands human nature better than an artist and knows more about selling art than an art dealer.


Politics for art’s sake

Tuesday 10 March 2009 - Comments / Commentaires (2)

detail image of Gwenn Seemel's Randy Leonard


In light of the most recent story about Randy Leonard’s spending scandal and other outrageous happenings in our democracy, I can’t help myself: I have to comment.


Steal this.

Thursday 5 March 2009 - Comments / Commentaires (4)

screen shot of Richard Schemmerer's blog PDXart


Any image you put online is the property of the world.  There’s no way to stop it, but there is a way to make it okay.


Classic.

Wednesday 4 March 2009 - Comments / Commentaires (3)

Vinzenz Brinkmann's work


It turns out that the classical look isn’t actually classical. 


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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...


Je m’appelle Gwenn Seemel, et j’habite aux États-Unis. Je suis artiste peintre. Je crée des vidéoblogs et des articles en français et en anglais. En savoir plus...


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