Famous faces
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 10:48AM Just for fun, and also to give me some inspiration for painting, I've been trying to compile a list of great faces. By this I mean people I'd love to photograph or paint, if ever they happened to need another portrait :)
They don't have to be famous, but so far everyone is (As I'm now 40, some might be unfamilar to younger readers). I have the following list to date:
Sir Ian McKellen (I am currently painting him from a photograph)
Ciaran Hinds
Clive Owen (Uncannily like a younger Ciaran Hinds)
Paul Newman
Tilda Swinton
Cate Blanchett
Tom Hanks
Angelina Jolie (who wouldn't?)
I also found some great 'unknown' faces by searching including a homeless man who could have lived centuries ago and a girl who could easily become a model, discovered by a street photographer in Singapore.
As a portrait and model photographer I hope this exercise will help me to study poses and the way light affects mood, and it may also give me some interesting subject matter for my oil painting. Here's my takes on Thierry Henry and Sir Ian McKellen, both as yet unfinished.. I hope they look like the real thing!
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