Reference for this series is from Yousuf Karsh, black and white photography.
I want to pay tribute to Yousuf Karsh an amazing black and white photographer and create a series of portraits from his book.
Using the Zorn palette (first time) as foundation with personal modification to create a series of portraits using Golden acrylics and Matte medium on canvas.
People are like rainbows to me!
The human face is a road map of warm and cool hues creating in itself a vivid landscape of peaks and valleys.
As a humanitarian at heart, drawing and painting portraits connects me to people and restores my faith in human kindness.
The painting is an emerging blueprint with each layer of paint is empathy.
The goal for me if for the viewer to be engaged with the human face.
Through their eyes of the portrait on canvas lies the secret, lifting the every day mask and revealing the vulnerability and transparent truth
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| May study 2014 |
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| May study 2014 |
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| May study 2014 |
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| January 6, 2015 entries |
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| acrylic on gallery canvas of Albert Schweitzer by sue foerster |
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digital enhanced portrait painting by sue foerster |
