I just took a class on Digital Portraiture with W.David Powell in Lebanon, NH at the AVA Gallery. We used Photoshop Elements. I brought a small drawing I made at Borders. A new habit of mine is to go to Borders to draw people. They tend to sit in one position for a longer than short time so I have time to make a drawing. I have been using these to make small paintings I call tronies, after the studies done by Vermeer or Rembrandt, as I learned in Amsterdam, of anonymous people who conveyed an emotion. This drawing was not really right for those studies and had a spontaneous sense of person on its own.
I had hopes I could upload the image here but it is not formatted correctly. I will see what I can do.
I may be able to add some tronies that are paintings. No those are too dark so I will try all this again soon.
