Black and White Merkel

Only in America, with all our gadgets and stuff, could a boy like me sit down at his computer with this ...

And end up with this ...

This is just a computer study, but it's what I'll use when I draw slash paint B&WMerkel.

One thing I like about the bottom one is that it has the same imperious down-the-nose gaze that my favorite Bernanke painting has.  Can't put my finger on it right now, but it does.

The thing I like less about it is that it doesn't look exactly like the woman.  Although that, as dozens of paintings stand in mute agreement, is not unusual for me.

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"If you write their names across 
the top of the paintings, it doesn't have to look like them"

-- Marcel Duchamp

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I also think her shoulders are a bit too far up her neck.  Like she's shrugging.  So we'll fix that.

And then we'll see.