I agreed to sit as the model again this morning for an art group producing portraits. We had a cultural exchange as at the end of the two sessions as I recited the Haikus composed in my head during the forty minutes of the sitting. I then exchanged a book of my poetry for the excellent sketch of me shown below, by Wil Harvey. Barter in the art world!
Sketch by Wil Harvey
1st Haiku
Can that intense gaze
engage your eager fingers
with the sitter’s soul.
2nd Haiku
Nine-tenths is looking
then a decisive bold stroke
reproduces life.
