Glance Portrait

[Linda Brandon]

Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth

Linda, can you post an example of this? It sounds very interesting and I'd like to see what it looks like.

I can't find a better closeup of this at the moment, I'll have to scan my Sargent book, I guess... but if you have a Sargent book at home, take a look at the arm (our left).

This is an example of dark vibrating against a light background, but I think Sargent also "trembles" light flesh against dark in some of his other paintings. Maybe this is what you're also doing on our right shoulder of your subject, Richard?

Lord Ribblesdale

[Linda Brandon]

You can take this "vibration" concept as far as you like.

[Michele Rushworth]

Can you tell me the name of this portrait subject (not Calvin, the other one!) so I can look it up in my Sargent book?

[Richard Barnett]

Thank you all for the input. I appreciate it and it really helps me alot.

Afterall, the lifeline of an artist is a good critique.

Richard