This painting is the second in a fairly long running series of “glamour” portraits. There’s nothing digital about this one. I just drew an inverted triangle for the head, blocked in the rest of it then did an automatic drawing on top of it. I’ve done these sorts of things for as long as I can remember. They go fairly easily and give me a break from the more complex stuff.
I love mid-twentieth century glamour photography: George Hurrell and Milton Greene and so on… pictures Of Dietrich, Garbo, Gene Tierney, Hedy Lamarr, Lauren Bacall, etc… Those pictures offer a sort of break from the glut of images on the internet today. Not that today’s photography is bad… some of it’s amazing. There’s so much of it that it loses a lot of its impact. There’s a sort of magic to those old film photos, anyway… the greyscales, the lighting, the clarity… the subjects…
(I just realized… I sound a bit like Norma Desmond. 🙂 )
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