2009 has certainly gotten off to an auspicious start! I just received the Edith Moore Portrait Award at GFAA's Winter Members' Show on 25 January for this charcoal piece. On display at Trinity United Methodist Church in Gainesville through 24 March 2009.
While I intended to do only a study of the subject's face, I decided it was progressing well enough to develop further. One thing led to another, and before long I was borrowing books from his library and using them to establish a background. In addition to providing compositional interest, they also provide additional clues about the subject. Did you happen to notice the copy of "The Yage Letters" tucked in amongst those scholarly tomes?
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