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.

Have camera, will travel

There are many advantages to painting portraits from photographs:

1) Using photography helps me to capture a subject’s breath and movement when I paint.

2) To work from photos I need to meet the subject, but only just once.  A person doesn’t have to sit for me for hours on end repeatedly.

3) Pictures make it possible for me to be flown across the country to spend a day with subjects and, a year later, deliver finished paintings.

I haven’t had the chance to explore this third benefit until just a few days ago when some clients flew me to Vermont and Ohio. 

It was fun seeing new parts of the US while also meeting new people.  And I admit that being flown around for work made me feel a little like a rock star…

...and even a rock star who deserves to treat herself to a vacation in a tropical paradise.  So tomorrow I leave for Hawaii.  I’ve never been, and I mean to enjoy discovering this corner of the States too!

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