2008 April 23 « PORTRAITS FOR LIFE

A VIP under My Pen

I am working right now on a portrait, from which I would like to show you its true face, but I am not allowed. First of all the portrait is meant as a surprise for a man soon becoming 70 years old. One never knows who would find it on the net!

And then this man is a German VIP, of sorts. I cannot publish his portrait without asking him, and I can’t ask him because it is a surprise, And even if I could, I would not, because I am quite sure he wouldn’t let me. His profession wouldn’t allow it, I guess.

But don’t worry for me, he is neither a terrorist nor a drug dealer nor whatever other monster might have crossed your mind. He is simply a lawyer… but a really big one! Of course some of you (me included) may think that lawyers and monsters are one and the same, but that is an argument for another time…

So, I have altered the portrait in a way that one cannot really recognise the man. Anyway it is not finished, I have to add some wrinkles and lose some others, to put more light in his eyes, to dye his hair a little bit and to change a hundred other little details, which he won’t be able to see when the portrait is finished, but which will have the effect to make him appear 10 years younger.

In fact this is the real art of portrait, to make the portraited people feel good and beautiful about themselves!