London-based artist Brian McLaughin shares with us his unique approach to digital portraits, and provides some information about his background in traditional media, as well as what currently inspires his work. Following his words you will find more of his portraits and a link to his portfolio, where you can enjoy even more of his art.
Video portraits combine videography with elements of still photography to produce something derivatively new. I can’t quite nail it down, but it seems that video portraits have the power to evoke an emotional response that’s different and in some ways more powerful than still photography.
Says Robert Wilson, who creates high definition video portraits, “You think nothing is happening at first, and then you get caught in the subtlety of it and you realize there’s much more there than first meets the eyes.”
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Diego Rivera is best known for his large dramatic murals, and perhaps for his marriage to Frida Kahlo. What’s less known is that from 1913 to 1917 he painted a series of cubist portraits. Twenty-three of these paintings, along with some sketches and illustrations, will be on display at the Meadows Museum in Dallas Texas, from June 21 through September 20, 2009.
It’s unusual to a find a serious, well-executed portrait painting that features a big, wide-open smile. Toothy smiles have become a hallmark of amateur portraits painted as copies of a photographs, without any real effort at originality. There are exceptions, of course.
Some of Frans Hals portraits, for example. And now, this portrait by Jesse Fillingham, a student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
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