Friday, August 16, 2013

13. Gerry


My brother Gerry is:  my role model, a great human being, brilliant, funny, generous, handsome, an incredible attorney, an obsessive runner, a feminist, a Yankees fan, and a lover of dogs.  My oldest brother.  I have five brothers, no sisters.  I know, I know, my poor mother.  Can you imagine six girls though?  I can’t either.

Turned out pretty good. Same basic style as the MLK drawing.  Struggled for a bit, but luckily I thought of turning the drawing and the reference upside down and was able to see how glaringly off I was and fixed it.  First time I did that.  Incredibly important.  

When you invert the image your mind detaches all of the ingrained assumptions about what you’re looking at and is able to ‘see’ more clearly.  Art lesson for the day.

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