All Every head on file Gift portraits August 2026
The sitting
- Client
- Private commission
- Use
- Gift, framed
- Medium
- Ink and gouache
- Size
- 11 x 14 in
- Delivered
- May 2026
His mother sent two photographs, both blurry, and a recording of him playing at a parade. The recording was the more useful of the two. A child's face has almost nothing to exaggerate, so the caricature has to come out of posture and the instrument instead. The horn got bigger, the shoulders went back, and the cheeks did what cheeks do.