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My most recent homage to one of my favorite composers. I've realized that when you're caricaturing Bach, making the head larger than the body doesn't work. Bach is all about the power of his physical presence. He's like the maestoso movement of one of his own organ works. The bottom part of the figure has to nearly fill the lower part of the frame in order to convey the appropriate feeling. I just love his face, I could play with the shading and the nose shape and the dewlaps and the dark eyes and his double chins all day. This time I noticed that he has a kind of uplift at the outside corners of his eyes in a lot of his portraits - hadn't realized that before.

I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted anything. I've been trying to transcribe my artist interviews for this blog - I can't figure out how to attach audio here because I'm a moron. I made some changes to this older Bach pic and I think it's a bit better, so wanted to re-post it - and prove I'm still alive :)