"From These Hills" Hosts Leslie Rogers and Joel Brashear

Portrait completed for the episode of "From These Hills" that was filmed last Friday. The style of this portrait utilizes a full range of tones to give the illusion of solidity and weight. I love the energy and fragile nature of linear drawings but it's also nice to lay down bold marks.

I guess for the future I'll be contemplating the line between representation and artistic expression. Questions that many portrait artists have pondered with pencil and brush, with various results. I wonder where I'll arrive?

What would Whistler, Sargent, or Da Vinci have created digitally? Do you think they would have ignored the digital tools available?