F. Scott Hess, Time, 2005, oil on canvas, 54 -- 66 inches, Number 6 in The Seven Laughters of God series. In 1974, when I was a freshman art student at a small Midwestern liberal arts college in Wisconsin, I wanted to learn to draw the human figure. One untenured professor took me under his wing and encouraged that process, but the department chair, an alcoholic abstract painter, stumbled into the studio late one evening while I was studying a plaster head that showed the muscles of the face. He...
F. Scott Hess, Time, 2005, oil on canvas, 54 -- 66 inches, Number 6 in The Seven Laughters of God series. In 1974, when I was a freshman art student at a small Midwestern liberal arts college in Wisconsin, I wanted to learn to draw the human figure. One untenured professor took me under his wing and encouraged that process, but the department chair, an alcoholic abstract painter, stumbled into the studio late one evening while I was studying a plaster head that showed the muscles of the face. He...
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