well...it's gone a little beyond portraiture and become an actual drawing. It has that "timeless" thing going on...it could be Natalie Portman or Cleopatra...In the right hideously expensive frame, it's Park Avenue penthouse good.
wow, now ou've made me blush and sport a hideously self-satisfied grin thank you. while I try to get them to look similar to the photo, I always want the drawing to be interesting (and not necessarily beautiful)
give me "interesting" first...beauty will follow..."pin-up" art is easier...one of my favorite quotes for your amusement: "Heartfelt ineptitude has it's appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity." - John Barth.
I can't recommend Barth highly enough.
National Book Awards, many laurels, a poet, philospher who can write page-turners. The Evil Queens sound very interesting...OK great ones too.
They've got his books at the library, so eventually I'll read some and I suppose Evil depends on which side you'd be on... But I think people'd be generally afraid form a woman with great power (so maybe the presidents also apply to the criteria of great and terribly powerful women, but Cleopatra and the Queen of Saba are much more mythical and therefore attractive)
Barth is quite old now and his latest works have grown ( for me ) quite dense and difficult. "Giles Goat Boy" however is an epic. You'll be hooked. As for the Queens, it's a great idea, and again - saleable...
"I think it would be lovely in the library Worthington."
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