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| Anthony Ryder - The People's Choice Winner |
For the past several years, the Portrait Society of America has held a "Face-Off" on the first night of their annual conference, in which fifteen leading portrait artists spend two-and-a-half hours painting from the live model. During the session, attendees have the opportunity to travel from person to person and see the various approaches these talented artists take when approaching likenesses. On the Saturday of the conference, the artist from the face-off whom receives the most votes does a secondary demonstration where they have a better opportunity to express their methods to their audience. This year, the People's Choice was Anthony Ryder.
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| Ryder during his Saturday demonstration on the Main Stage |
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| Lea Colie Wight |
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| Tom Donahue |
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| Nancy Guzik |
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| Sherrie McGraw |
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| Bart Lindstrom |
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| Alexey Steele |
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| Casey Baugh |
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| Juan Martinez |
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| Dawn Whitelaw |
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| Judith Carducci |
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| Romel de la Torre |
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| Jon Houghton |
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| Jeremy Lipking |
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| Tony Pro |
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8 comments:
Hey Matthew,
Love the portrait of your cat, beautiful work! Wish I could of seen it in person.
Nice work by everyone else!
Thanks so much Matthew - fun to be able to see what I missed!
Many of the Face-Off painters were troupers who arrived having faced challenging travel conditions due to the terrible tornadoes! Hats off to them all. Casey Baugh had about 1 hour, I believe it was, as he stepped in for another artist who was not able to make it due to the air delays.
Matthew, great post! We are lucky that you share this type of stuff with the rest of us around the country and world.
Any comments on taking such clear and non-reflective photos of fresh paintings?
Thanks so much for posting these. I didn't make it to the event this year, so I'm living it through your blog!
xxoo
@ Wallace - I photographed these paintings a couple of days after they were painted - there was already a bit of sinking-in, but of course, there are certain works where there is still light reflecting off the texture (Alexey's and Jeremy's for example). Carducci's portrait is pastel, so glare wasn't a worry. For photographing the paintings, working with the available light, I shot everything from off center (to eliminate much of the glare), and then removed the skewed perspective in Photoshop with the Cropping tool. The algorithms used in the software interpolate the information, and allow for a reasonable looking image as if it were shot dead on.
I love Tony Pro's portrait. He did an excellent job. Good work all around, for sure. :D
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