Portrait Painters Use Photographs For Modern Paintings
August 17th, 2008You see, back in the day, sitting for a portrait was a big ordeal. Portrait artists would take a considerable amount of time to finish the portrait, and for all that time the person they were drawing would have to sit completely still. In order to pose for an oil artist portrait, they would have to hold the same pose and even the same expression for hour and hours. Only then could the portrait painter get his job done.
Modern portrait artists, however, have come up with an easier way to do things. Rather than painting from the actual client, they paint from a photograph of them. However, I can’t help but thinking that the work of portrait artists has gone downhill somewhat since the days of old.