Artwork / Public Faces / Paul Weatheroy (Portland Police Detective)

painted portrait of Paul Weatheroy
Gwenn Seemel
Paul Weatheroy (Portland Police Detective)
2005
acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches

Sometimes a likeness is all in the tilt of someone’s head. Capturing just the right angle makes a painting of a person into a portrait. In this piece and this one too, it’s obvious that the subjects’ expressions would come across very differently if the head were not tilted just so.