You’re an excellent portraitist! :)
I can’t claim that skill for myself; I avoid any opportunity to draw people unless there’s absolutely no other choice.
I see someone here whose character reminds me of an "Iron Maiden"—much like the late Margaret Thatcher. She doesn’t care what environmentalists think; she’ll wear fur, just as her ancestors did, and she enjoys it... perhaps it’s the right approach—not to pay any mind to other people’s opinions. :)
I don’t have a problem with wearing a fur coat either.
I think all that fuss about it is over the top, especially when the coat’s already here. Why deface or throw away a coat like this when it’ll last I don’t know how many years – perhaps even forever, as long as the moths don’t get to it?
If things carry on as they are, we’ll end up back at square one anyway, and then we’ll really have to start using animal skins and sheep’s wool again, because synthetic clothing will be out of fashion and there isn’t much of it grown round here.
I’m not particularly keen on doing portraits either, and I’m trying to do fewer of them at the moment. I once read that you should set yourself a goal of what you want to achieve. The goal I’ve set myself is that, before I die, I want to paint or draw a certain person – or create something with soft pastels, it doesn’t matter. I’m nowhere near that level yet, so I’d better get a move on. In any case, it was a nice change of pace, and I found the coat quite a bit of work with all that scratching about. I still don’t like colouring, and it could probably be done a lot neater and more beautifully by someone with more patience than me.
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I wouldn’t be able to respect myself if I bought my wife a faux-fur coat instead of a mink one—which is exactly what I did—given that I could afford the real thing. I’m not sentimental about this sort of thing, having grown up in a family of hunters and fishermen :)
Mink is beautiful and so are the animals. Very jumpy and active. Faux is completely different are they still made?
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Someone might well be producing faux mink fur—but it certainly isn’t mink! :)