“He drew his grandparents and he got in every single wrinkle!”
“Well, that just makes him a dermatologist.”
The hard part is knowing what to leave out.
"In history, as in art, the man who tries to show everything shows nothing."*
“When you do his portrait, can you leave his braces off?”
”Well, I’m not an orthodontist. But I’ll do my best.”
The hard part is knowing what to put in.
"…the portraitist is tied by a stout rope to the social demands of his generation."*
*James Thomas Flexner, History of American Painting Volume One: First Flowers of Our Wilderness (The Colonia Period), Dover, N.Y., 1969, p. xviii:
If you get fewer than 2,000 rejections a year, you are not working hard enough.
©Ida Kotyuk, Portrait Painter, MA
www.portraits-oils.com
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