Just curious.
Doesn’t have to be a specific portrait artist, just someone who has branched out into that area.
Also, doesn’t have to be realistic portraits, (I class the likes of Audrey Kawasaki works as portraiture too) 
Chuck Close did huge tremendously detailed portraits where you could see every pour and hair fuzz on the face. Then he had a stroke and lost the use of his hands and arms. The work he does now is fascinating and unlike any other artist. He grids the painting off and then paints brightly colored concentric circles in each square. When you are right on top of the painting you see a brightly colored abstract design. As you back away an extremely life like and accurate representation of the subject comes into view. Just last month the Art Museum in my city just had show of his portraits . Truly breathtaking , beautiful on so many levels, and tremendously inspiring.
Here is a site where you can compare his early work and later works. Both are original and wonderful in the entire world of portraiture.
http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=chuck+close+paintings&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=UolKS_ShDYraNfHj8OAF&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQsAQwAA
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:34 am
Victorian artist Millet
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March 3rd, 2010 at 6:55 am
Olivia de Beradinis or Gennadiy Koufay
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March 3rd, 2010 at 7:25 am
brett helquist is really more of an illustrator but he portrays people really beautifully and quirkily.
hmm… now i’m wondering if quirkily is a word….:D
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March 3rd, 2010 at 8:09 am
I quite like Francis Bacon. His portraits are quite dark and diffrent.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 8:59 am
When I worked at the National Gallery in London, we had a game of – if you could have your portrait painted by any historical artist, who would you choose but who would really portray you well? In my case, I agreed with my boss, who said Bronzino (have a look at his Eleanora da Toledo), but really a Northern artist would be better for my glum looks – Holbein historically, or Lucien Freud for today.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 9:35 am
My three year old sis. The almost unconscious of a child’s mind fascinates me. Why does she paint one eye so much larger than the other?
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March 3rd, 2010 at 9:55 am
Chuck Close did huge tremendously detailed portraits where you could see every pour and hair fuzz on the face. Then he had a stroke and lost the use of his hands and arms. The work he does now is fascinating and unlike any other artist. He grids the painting off and then paints brightly colored concentric circles in each square. When you are right on top of the painting you see a brightly colored abstract design. As you back away an extremely life like and accurate representation of the subject comes into view. Just last month the Art Museum in my city just had show of his portraits . Truly breathtaking , beautiful on so many levels, and tremendously inspiring.
Here is a site where you can compare his early work and later works. Both are original and wonderful in the entire world of portraiture.
http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=chuck+close+paintings&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=UolKS_ShDYraNfHj8OAF&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQsAQwAA
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