My goal is to paint a convincing portrait, but making it convincing and making it accurate are not the same to me. Leonardo da Vinci called portraits “vehicle[s] for expressing emotions of the mind.” I’m always negotiating with the forms to get at interiority, and I tend to trust my own distortions. -Catherine Prescott
I am drawn to Prescott's work because she likes to work from photographs which I myself appreciate because when you are taught to draw and to paint you are told to work from life and it is then drilled into your head that it has to be that way. But I find that working from photographs prove just as effective if not more effective than working from life because though life changes, a photograph will always stay the same. Prescott's work takes on characteristics of that of Leonardo da Vinci, which I like because of the masters he is my favorite.
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