Wait for it …
JL
So in college I did five photoshoots. I should talk about all of them some time, but right now I have to talk about one. The model was a girl who I saw at a party my Junior year. I saw her for a few seconds and though it was a dark house party, she looked like she had a spotlight on her. She had purple hair and an amazing, regal, confident quality about her and I thought to myself “I would love to try and capture all that in a painting.” I blinked and she was gone.
Fast foward to my Senior year and I was at Chucks and saw her again. Turns out a friend of mine knew her. He spoke to her on my behalf and we set up a photoshoot.
She was amazing and the poses and expressions she had have influenced my subsequent work in the years since.
However, at the time, I sucked as a photographer. I was trying to get tricky and many of the photos are backlit. There’s no contrast. They’re a mess. For a few year I tried to do the best I could with the pictures, but eventually gave up.
I always felt bad about the shoot, not only because I missed an amazing opportunity to produce great work with such an interesting person, but because I promised her that I’d show her the photos and give her some prints, but got busy with graduating and packing up and never got around to it. I never forget promises like that, and later Facebook was invented, so I found her, wrote her, mailed her a CD of the shots which she got yesterday. Also – we’re talking about doing another shoot. I hope to have some paintings to put up here in the next few months that try and capture that unique quality of hers.
Meanwhile, here are some paintings I did from the shoot:
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