Does this look like Michelle Obama

[silvereyes]

Actually, there are photographs of Michelle that don't look much like we are used to seeing her:

We usually see her face more animated, so perhaps the portrait is not quite as far off as we might think.

I dont care who says it....she is far from unattractive. She is beautiful, intelligent, gracious, and articulate.

[Dr. Who]

I dont care who says it....she is far from unattractive. She is beautiful, intelligent, gracious, and articulate.

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.

[pragmatic]

That picture is overexposed. The actual painting doesn't look like a white woman, but it's not a great representation of Michelle.

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Nice painting.

Looks like her to me.

[pragmatic]

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.

In life she really does have great smile. (Whether one is a fan of hers or not.)

[Dr. Who]

In life she really does have great smile. (Whether one is a fan of hers or not.)

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.

[Common Sense]

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.

[MMC]

In life she really does have great smile. (Whether one is a fan of hers or not.)

The bruthas in Chiraq never talk about her smile. But they do talk about dat ass. Just sayin.