I was ready to try something else, maybe watercolors of trees. I even rounded up my photos of trees, shots with trees as the subject, and put them in an album on my iPad. I did three or four watercolors from those sources but then glanced down at this array, the source material for “Models From Crime Page.”
I felt the pull again. Part of the allure is the way they are shot, flat and point blank. But the rich poses transcend the setting. Maybe these photos, the source material is as good as it gets. That thought is also part of the allure. Why am I, a happy go lucky guy, drawn to these characters? If I knew the answer to that one I would not torturing myself to to make art.
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It would indeed be interesting to investigate why you are drawn to these photos. For me, I would look at them and shudder and try to move away, in part because I feel I have been too close to a few “criminals” in my life and want not want lies behind their eyes…. (though I at one point thought that something deep lay there — not so much now.)
a difficult subject with many possible approaches/responses