I don't think that she's unattractive, but most pictures of her show her smiling and she looks quite different smiling or displaying some kind of emotion than with a very straight face. Her face is usually quite animated. I still don't think that the portrait is quite right in terms of her facial features, but it's closer to the picture I posted than most of the photographs of her.
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I am a portraitist in my spare time - there is a small error in the philtrum. It's a bit too short in the portrait. The eyes are a tad smaller than Michelle's and her chin is ever so slightly more square. The hand under her chin is a bit longer than it should be. I'm just guessing here, but I suspect that the artist was working from pictures of Michelle at different ages and different weights as well as sketches or sketch done while sitting for the portrait.
Last edited by Dr. Who; 02-13-2018 at 11:49 PM.
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Before reading this thread I liked both portraits. Michelle's reminds me of a realist version of Klimt and Obama's is a great departure from the norm and I dig the flatness.
Now that I've heard the howling...I like them more.
Smartmouthwoman (07-03-2018)