Dinner at CODA tonight. It was yum but could I suggest that the oysters could be a little larger? They were defo on the puny side.
On the tram, back home along St Kilda Road, there was a girl. She was so elegant. She was wearing a black t-shirt and black suede slip on broguey things. Then a very lightweight camel cardigan and tight camel pants, like ski pants but that had a perfect cuff. Her hair was in a casual pony tail and she was wearing dark brown, maybe black, newsreader specs. Her phone was in a mint-green case.
She was gorgeous.
This is something I don't admit to, um, ever, I think; but quite often I will be out somewhere and I will see someone and just want to take a photo of them* and take it home and paint their picture (I don't, but I want to). It's not so much people I think are "beautiful"; or, not in a conventional sense anyway; more, beautiful in an interesting or unusual way. Like, I see something in them that I would really like to capture in a picture.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, it makes me feel a bit weird and creepy at times.
*Actually, I want to take a video, because it's bloody hard to capture what a person really looks like in a photo. Ever taped the news and then gone back and watched frame by frame? Notice how in 90% of the frames the news-reader's face looks fucked-up? I saw a show once that talked about this theory of how your brain takes all the different angles and expressions you see on a person's face, combines them, exaggerates, filters, distorts and uses that information to map out an "idea" of what a person looks like. I think a good portrait/caricature is less about capturing what a person "factually" looks like and more about tapping into that subconscious "idea" people have. It's why a good drawing of a politician can often be more instantly recognisable than a real photo of them.
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ReplyDeleteI saw a beautiful Italian couple on the tram last week. They were elegant and smooth, and made me embarrassed about my fat lumpiness. And I was dressed almost as well as I could be that day.
ReplyDeleteAnd I was jealous as I will never be that elegant and smooth.
I think it's nice to be able to appreciate a well-put together look, a gorgeous complexion, a suave older gentleman or gentlewoman. It's not creepy to find inspiration in people around us and to appreciate beauty.
ReplyDeleteSo Alex have you ever painted a portrait and do we have the opportunity to see this somewhere? Show me yours, I showed you mine type thing? Do you do caricatures? I think I would like a caricature done one day, more than a portrait I think. It's like the cartoon is much less of a wank for a person to commission. They can pretend they are having a laugh at themselves and are not being egotistical. I quite like the one of Marieke in the previous post not sure where it came from...
It certainly sounds less creepy when you put it like that.
ReplyDeleteI also tend to prefer a good caricature over a portrait. It's a shame you don't see as many good ones in the papers as you used to. Budget cuts, I suppose.
Apart from half a Tilda Swinton in my old "Huntsman 3D" movie poster, I don't think there's much up at the moment. But there will be. I'm sure. I'm forcing myself into it. New year's resolution.