Apr 05 2011
Yikes! I’ve gone a whole week between #PortraitNight posts without a real, written blog post. Oh well, blame my daughter’s preschool being out last week for spring break. Tonight’s subject is rock-and-rollist Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. I dig pretty much all the early Pretenders records, but I’m partial to the first two records with …
Mar 29 2011
This week’s #PortraitNight is a bit of a rush job, I’m afraid; I spent much of the weekend tangled up in a not-as-simple-as-expected project setting up a digital music player stereo component. Anyway, tonight’s subject is fashion dilettante and international nasty-man Muammar Gaddafi:
Mar 22 2011
Tonight’s subject is philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. I was a philosophy major in college and did my thesis on Wittgenstein. I’d love to tell you that I therefore have a really solid understanding of his two most notable contributions to philosophy–logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy–but his ideas are pretty slippery and even after studying him …
Mar 15 2011
This week’s Twitter #PortraitNight subject is a suggestion from Tim O’Shea of Comic Book Resources. After two disastrous attempts at his other suggestion, Peter Gabriel, I wound up switching gears and attempting a likeness of author John Irving. This was a quick drawing that took maybe twenty minutes in my sketchbook and I think turned …
Mar 08 2011
Tonight’s portrait night subject is writer W.H. Auden, as suggested by Eric Newsom via Twitter. This isn’t a bad likeness, but it’s definitely a lot more literal/less cartoony than I’d like. I need to try next week to really, really push things toward a more abstract and less detailed rendering. I should really subject myself …
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