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Portraits

I painted these portraits digitally on my IPad in Procreate. At the bottom you'll see a few exercies I did to discover how the classic portrait artists I admired did it (and to do it on a modern computer)

Claude_Rains.jpg

Based on a black and white photo of Claude Rains

Noel_Paul_Stookey.jpg

Based on a photo of Peter Yarrow of Peter,

Paul and Mary

Ike.jpg

Based on a photo of General Eisenhower

Ann-Margret.jpg

Based on a photo of Ann-Margaret

Old_Jew.jpg
AtTheWindow.jpg

Study from a photo found on the internet

Study of a painting by Rembrandt

Shakespeare3.jpg

Attempting a portrait of a known face ... BUT in a different pose (it's William Shakespeare)

SaraBarellais.jpg

Portrait of musician Sara Barellias

attempting a different style and different brushes

Joe_E_Brown.jpg

Based on a black and white photo of comedian Joe E. Lewis

Teresa_Ganzel.jpg

Based on a photo of actress Teresa Ganzel. This is my "Breck Portrait" because it reminds me of the ads I saw in magazines as a kid for Breck shampoo.

BenFranklin.jpg

An attempt to reproduce a portrait by the 17th century portrait master Jean Auguste Ingre

Reproducing a portrait by Joseph Duplessis

Ingres-Study.jpg
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