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painted portrait of Bill Bradbury (Secretary of the State of Oregon)
Gwenn Seemel
Bill Bradbury (Secretary of the State of Oregon)
2005
acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches

When I met with Bill for our interview, he said he was “97% fun” and that answer reminded me of Ron’s from Snow Days. Adults are generally pretty good at giving verbal cues about which direction to take a portrait, but when I’m painting kids like this one I have less to work with in terms of the subject’s self-mythology.