Why allegorical portraiture is the super genre

An allegorical portrait unites a sitter’s likeness with the attributes of a character from literature or history.

The origins of allegorical portraiture

Painted portraiture has always had its defenders, in the name of both its money-making potential and its ability to tell an important story.

Validating a mimetic art

Long before the camera and its progeny Modernism spat on verisimilitude in painting, the Art Academies had discredited portraiture.

Art I like

Portland artist William Park painted this self-portrait in 2003, and I love it.

The fine art of presenting your work

The promotion of your work is more important than creating excellent work.

A Native American George Washington

A study in inhabiting the enemy.

I (never) made a painting from this sketch.

Well, actually, I did make the painting, but I didn’t document it, so I may as well never have made it.

If you don’t document your work, you never made it.

This wasn’t always the case, but in today’s world of digital information it’s a fact of artistic life.

Words, words, words…

Using words with images is tricky.

What’s wrong with this picture?

These portraits reveal more about their viewers than about anyone else.

How to build a stretcher

The work is well worth it in order to have a painting precisely the size you want it to be.

Portraits don’t just get painted.

Behind every painted face you see, there are only five possible motivating factors.

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