If you could commission your own portrait from any artist living or dead

[zippitippitoes]

who would you choose and why..any media you like sculpture, conceptual, photographic, video, painting

Chagall here too - my favourite artist

me and dds

walter sickert

I can't make my mind up... it's very interesting to see what you are choosing, I sooo miss thinking about art..

I rather like the idea of a Renoir myself...

not much enthusiam for Damien hirst or tracey emin yet lol

Hmmm, what do you think that would involve?

Painting a portrait with my own urine? Or sculpting my head out of my used tissues?

Someone once told me I looked like a girl from a Vermeer painting, so I guess it would have to be him.

Although in reality I'd probably look more at home in a Martin Parr photograph

someone told you that you looked like a girl from a Vermeer painting
wow you must have been flattered
no one ever says anything like that to me

I have already commissioned a family portrait by a local artist by the name of Rosalind Freeborn. She does amazing collage work. I've seen one of her family portraits and it's amazing!

Well, it was a fair few years ago now

And he never specified which painting - I of course assumed he meant something gorgeous like the Girl with the Pearl Earring, but he could have been referring to one of those hefty-armed milkmaid types!

hadn't thought of martin parr...

did think of Chagall a dreamy one rather than a gritty one i think

Bill Viola would be interesting

at one time might have said Rossetti

That's exciting |Marslady, anything to link to?

Rosalind Freeborn some examples of her work

The pictures look truly amazing in "the flesh"

that's it ks, bring the tone down

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Picasso definitely (in 'Guernica' style)

ks Vettriano would only work if he could copy your portrait from somewhere else....

lovely Hausfrau, but what on earth is happening behind you!!

Dali

Mario Testino