Sit still for a street portraitist
“Being looked at that closely, that long, by someone you do not know is squirm-inducing for the first few minutes, then you forget your face is the subject and just watch them work.”
The Recipe
- Go to wherever artists set up in this city (the cathedral square, the tourist strip, the park railings) and take the first portraitist with a free chair, not the best one.
- Sit for the full portrait or caricature, whichever they do, and hold still.
- Pay, take the drawing, and ask them what they noticed about your face.
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