The idea for the 50 Faces project started out with a plan to make 100 faces. My daughter, Cynthia Hamilton, suggested that “Fifty Faces” had a nice ring to it. I agreed, still not sure how it was going to continue.
I put out a request for people to send photos to my email address. I said I didn’t want smiling faces; no dark glasses and no babies. At first, I received some perfect photos. More photos came in, but many of them were blurry, too small, bad angles and just not usable. I decided that since I was not charging for the portraits, I could pick the best ones. I relaxed my rules a bit and did end up painting some faces with big smiles and one face with dark glasses. Each day for weeks, I looked forward to painting the faces of friends, family, acquaintances and strangers.
I photographed the process of each portrait and published one each day on my blog, I did not start by drawing, but just began painting with bold, bright colors that became subtle suggestions of color on the finished faces.
Frequently, as I worked on the faces, I remembered John Singer Sargent comment; “ A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth”
I put out a request for people to send photos to my email address. I said I didn’t want smiling faces; no dark glasses and no babies. At first, I received some perfect photos. More photos came in, but many of them were blurry, too small, bad angles and just not usable. I decided that since I was not charging for the portraits, I could pick the best ones. I relaxed my rules a bit and did end up painting some faces with big smiles and one face with dark glasses. Each day for weeks, I looked forward to painting the faces of friends, family, acquaintances and strangers.
I photographed the process of each portrait and published one each day on my blog, I did not start by drawing, but just began painting with bold, bright colors that became subtle suggestions of color on the finished faces.
Frequently, as I worked on the faces, I remembered John Singer Sargent comment; “ A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth”
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