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My very earliest portraits.

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As I’ve said before, I didn’t try to draw people until I was thirteen. Before that, it was 99% horses. But when I turned fourteen and became part of the Stuyvesant Freaks, I suddenly had so many friends and boyfriends and girlfriends. And I had sketchbooks around, of course, since I was going to be […]

Portraits of my friend Tom, 1990.

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A big part of the praxis of portraiture is drawing the same people over and over. You have to do it over and over, so you start to understand what characteristics make a face distinctive, what features identify someone. I had a teacher at Parsons who taught us that ear placement is critical, too! Tom […]