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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