Portraits

This new YouTube video takes you along on an unusual painting technique and some thoughts about what would happen if we could live our days ...

 Which is more important for face recognition: outline or tonal shapes? Jim Carrey (left) and Kevin Costner. According to vision scientists ...

Some call it "deconstructed realism," while others call it "disrupted realism" or "abstracted realism."  Alex ...

Last night, actor and writer Joe Baer performed "Tales of Mark Twain" in Rhinecliff, NY. I painted an impromptu portrait of him fr...

This man was sitting by himself at the diner. I liked the cool colors of the walls and his jeans, in contrast to the warm-colored notes of h...

John Wesley Jarvis  (1781-1839) was an American portrait painter who streamlined his process so that he could produce six portraits a week. ...

Well, this time I didn't actually set up my easel in the supermarket,  like I did last time.  The aisles are too narrow and it's jus...

( Link to YouTube)  A young Nigerian boy named Waris Kareem has been creating a sensation with his large realist portrait drawings. It...

Elizabeth Shoumatoff  started working on her watercolor portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at about noon on April 12, 1945.  During...

William Ewart Gladstone's portrait was painted, sculpted, and photographed many times, given that he was one of the most influential fig...