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Devon Johnston 04-06-2002 04:04 PM

Cartoony Portraits
 
I know everything is subject to personal taste, but I love portraits that are painterly and capture the character/expression of the subject. But I also love some portraits where the subjects are what I call 'Cartoony'. Jessica Rockwell's is an example of this type of portrait. Some of them I loved, where she seemed to combine the silly with the real.

I was going to ask where you draw the line between something that is too much like a cartoon and something that isn't, but again, that is subject to individual's tastes. So will ask this, as portrait artists, (I've seen a lot of your works, BRAVO!) As you are painting, do your paintings ever look too cartoony to you? Is there something you do to avoid this or correct this?

DJ

Devon Johnston 04-07-2002 01:45 PM

I have been informed that my use of the term "cartoony" would be insulting. I did not intend to insult anyone, perhaps using the term 'fantasy quality' would have been better. There are many famous artists who interpret portraits in a variety of ways. What I meant to say is that not all look like a photograph. There are many different styles and I like and respect and enjoy all these styles.

Some portraits have a magical quality I would like to capture but my efforts to do so have resulted in something that looks like (to me) too much like a cartoon. So I used the word "cartoony" to indicate something good.

What I was trying to ask is how you take a portrait from looking like a photograph to a "painting", with the magical/fantasy quality, and how do you keep it from going too far. I wondered what is in the artist's mind, what they see when they look at people are able to generate that 'magical' quality.

DJ


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