Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
"Forget your Perfect Offering"
Light is supposed to play around the dimensions of the face. That's how we get the great builds in your portraits. Look at this one, in particular. If you fussed too much with the brightest areas of the face and right hand, the "presence" of the portrait would be diminished.
In the song by Leonard Cohen, "There's a crack in everything, that's where the light comes in!" means that if we close all the cracks, and try to perfect everything, we'd exclude the light and have no reality. So, he says, "Forget your perfect offering!"......and stay till, "closing Time"!
Thanks goodness you were not worried about this fellow, as he is still alive!
Asher
Light is supposed to play around the dimensions of the face. That's how we get the great builds in your portraits. Look at this one, in particular. If you fussed too much with the brightest areas of the face and right hand, the "presence" of the portrait would be diminished.
In the song by Leonard Cohen, "There's a crack in everything, that's where the light comes in!" means that if we close all the cracks, and try to perfect everything, we'd exclude the light and have no reality. So, he says, "Forget your perfect offering!"......and stay till, "closing Time"!
Thanks goodness you were not worried about this fellow, as he is still alive!
Asher