MATERIALS
• Stretched canvas.
• Artists’ quality oil paints.
• Selected artists’ brushes.
I have a dear friend, Rabbi Lieder, who is a giant of a human being giving endlessly to families through his charity centre. He is a big man in all ways … physically, emotionally and spiritually. His nature burns with serious humour. Everything is important but everything people consider important is demonstrated as comically trivial in the greater scheme of things.
STEP ONE
In painting portraits, some remarks are obvious but still need to be made. Clearly there needs to be a likeness. Furthermore, if a portrait is to advance on a photograph, some measure of the subject’s personality and character needs to be brought out in paint.
To address the likeness, I measure very carefully all…
