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Miss Viola Snodgrass, suffragette and schoolmarm, portrait #7
Today’s model was Miss Viola Snodgrass. She arrived at my house on her shining clean bicycle, wearing a long ample skirt and a white blouse with fabric-covered buttons. Once I had her seated, she did not move a muscle, but while we were talking she commented that this was foolishness, I could have used a…
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The Old Gypsy Woman – self portrait #6
Today my model humored me, she put on huge hoop earrings, hoping to fulfill the prophecy of her grandmother Maddalena, uttered 50 years ago. “You look like a gypsy!” As a gypsy, she told me, in accented English, that maybe it looks like her life is good, all she has to do is read palms…
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Through a glass darkly – self portrait #4
Totally emboldened by my artist friend’s words, I realized that my new model (me) was not going to get upset if I played a little bit with her face and created new people using her bones as my support. Who is that person in the picture? She really is a stranger, but in a funny…
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Through the looking glass – self portrait #1
Defining where I am as an artist, I must tell you that I have been frustrated lately with my paintings. A fellow artist suggested that I do self portraits. I easily blew off that suggestion, “sorry, I don’t like standing in the bathroom for hours painting.” And then I realized what I’d done, once again,…