The portrait of the lady with the blue face, said to be the most reproduced painting in the world, has been bought by a diamond millionaire for display in South Africa. the sitter is not smiling nor even looking at the painter/viewer. Would you want to have lunch with her?
I can understand that people posing for oil paintings can't keep up a fixed smile for hours. But nowadays we have photos. You can take a photo and draw a sketch from it. If that's what millionaires are prepared to pay for, I'm prepared to draw an unsmiling face and add a blue complexion - a lot easier than trying to match a real facial colour. I must get out my blue watercolour and draw myself.
Would you like a caricature by me? It might be wroth millions in years to come.
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I can understand that people posing for oil paintings can't keep up a fixed smile for hours. But nowadays we have photos. You can take a photo and draw a sketch from it. If that's what millionaires are prepared to pay for, I'm prepared to draw an unsmiling face and add a blue complexion - a lot easier than trying to match a real facial colour. I must get out my blue watercolour and draw myself.
Would you like a caricature by me? It might be wroth millions in years to come.
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