working on portraits

I've been trying to work on portraits in lifedrawing. Doing at least one a session. I think these were all 45 minute poses. Here are Paige, Hannah and Jamie.

They say every portrait is, in some way, a self-portrait. It is difficult not to bring into the drawing pieces of that face we see every day in the mirror.

Once, many moons ago, in Painting class at UT, we had an African-American woman as our model. We had her for several sessions with the same pose. In group critique, we pointed out to a young, white male student that his painting of her was a dead-on self-portrait. "My secret fantasy," he said.