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Published: 2011-06-03 07:29:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 403; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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This is one of the first from my Portrait series for the summer of 2011. 30 days, 30 faces.Related content
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Somehow I had not seen this before. Lovely! Your art is always so expressive.
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Why, thank you!
As is often the case in his writing, I suppose this was hidden in plain sight
My little joke, of course. But truth be told, I have wondered if anyone noticed this for awhile now. It is one of my personal favorites. The reason is my passion for the man and my unending curiosity for his strange mind. Passion, I feel, makes expression inevitable. Thank you so much for the kind compliment. Always a joy to hear from you!!
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You've got a natural talent for portraits I must say...I am impressed at your ability to capture the character lines and getting the character's looks spot on 
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It sounds funny, but I really try to do what I love, or at least what I have deep feelings for. I don't know what that means or where it is going, but I have really been so attracted to the lines of people's faces. Every one is like a page in novel. With this one, I don't know. I have always been captivated by pictures of him. He always seems in his photos to be looking so very far away, but there is also such an incredible joy about him. Thank you so much for such a kind and considered comment. If I can convey even an ounce of the feeling he generates in my heart, I am a happy little thing.
With my deepest gratitude
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I admire artists that do a great likeness or justice to the person they are conveying...and it's great that you enjoy drawing people's faces, and yes it's like a life road map or as you put it, a page in a novel
I think you did a fantastic job on J.R.R.
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I mistakenly said "question". OOps!
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I will admit this here. I don't really know why I do these things. It started off, as most things do with me, with a story. I was a good drawer, and always had been. I was barely a teen, and as these things go, there was a girl in class....yeah, oldie but goodie. So I drew a picture of her quite innocently thinking it would please her. Long story short, She cried, and we never spoke again. Since that day, I have been terribly afraid of doing portraits of any kind. One day, many years later, I found myself drawing again. I decided to conquer my fears by drawing myself. It didn't take long before I got very sick (and a bit horrified) of my own mug. The rest is me doing far more portraits than I ever thought I would. I have become quite addicted now, and simply find the human face so very wonderful. I get alot of offers with money attatched to draw couples and girlfriends and boyfriends.....I usually turn them down. What I realized is that I still do them because of my passion for that person. When I have that passion, the work is pure joy for me. Finding those little crevices and marks that reveal the person in my heart helps me to feel it is worth doing. I hit upon this when I did a picture of Werner Herzog, and got so wrapped up in it that I forgot to look at what I was supposed to be drawing. What I ended up with was something Herzog would call "ecstatic truth". I felt like an artist for the first time. I still find that I am at my best when I have total passion. I have recently experienced this twice! while drawing a bicycle. This time, my agenda is a bit hidden, but it is a furious passion, nonetheless.
So long response to a simple question.
Thank you so much. Of course, my passion for John Ronald Raul is severe!!
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I agree about when you have passion your work is pure joy...I feel the same way
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