Several times I've started the sentence "I don't wish to speak ill of the dead, but..." and then been at a loss as to how to continue. So I'll just say, Here's a sketch and a painting of Jesse Helms I did about 14 years ago for Mother Jones. I like the sketch more than the painting, which is egg-tempera & oil on board, a Renaissance technique I was trying to learn. It seemed perversly fitting to do a Cro-Magnon man in Renaissance Man style. I also started one in the style of a religious icon, with (dutch) gold leaf and everything, but I never finished it. But now I don't feel the need to, so I guess I've moved on.
This is scanned off a magazine tearsheet, but it's pretty close to the original. I gave the original to my friend Nick, whose uncle once ran against Helms, because it gave me the creeps.
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Wow. When this page first loaded I thought I was looking at a conceptual sketch of an alien for the upcoming X-Files movie ... just a second before I recognized it as Helms.
Not to speak ill of the dead ...
Richard, is there any style you can't do?
That painting is so great!
Beautiful sketch! If such a thing can be said, considering the subject.
I also loved the Doug Marlette sketch of Helms found here...
http://www.politicker.com/jesse-helms-and-doug-marlette
Sorry about the incomplete link...
-doug-marlette
Nice likeness - sketch and painting. You caught all his depth, wisdom and warmth.
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
If you have nothing nice to say...draw a caricature.
Seriously good drawing. Now post something else so I don't have to look at it any more. It gives me the willies.
Ack! I have the heebie jeebies
Yikes, me too. Time for something new...
*shudder!*
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