blog on CHUCK CLOSE interview with Cindy Nemser

     when i first saw chuck close's super-realist portraits i was instantly drawn in. i saw all the detail in it and thought, "man this man must have been obsessed with these people."i hate doing portraits, i feel myself slowly becoming obsessed with the subjects i draw. but as he talked about his process it seemed that he had successfully made them so large and so detailed that all that was lost. he was not drawing a person but rather just pores, wrinkle, lines, and value. he said he only backed away from them a few times.