I warned you - I seem to be drawn to painting in series. The thing is - portraiture is really difficult and time consuming! I mean really. I must have redone these two paintings 10 or twelve times. For me if I'm going to do a portrait of a recognizable person, it really better look like them. With the choice of the President's Lincoln and Obama there are two distinct problems beyond the obvious. With President Lincoln I could not find a photo other than black & white - reasonable since the color photo had not been perfected. In the case of President Obama I had no lack of reference photos - that was a problem for me. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing the man, much less meeting him - so what happened when I went through photos of Barak was the vast differences in facial color they represented. Astounding. Lots of color, best guess.
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