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Pencil & watercolor portraits from your photos. Welcome! I'm Mike Theuer, a professional portrait artist. I turn your photos into pencil portraits and watercolor portraits by hand. My style is expressive, so you'll see pencil lines in my drawings and brush strokes in my paintings. I also pay close attention to light and shadow so my drawings and paintings appear to glow.
Head master. 1  Chuck Close is one of America's most influential - and most collectable - artists. His gigantic mosaic-patterned paintings helped reinvent the art of portraiture, and now sell for up to $5m each. 2  Chuck Close is one of America's most influential - and most collectable - artists. His gigantic mosaic-patterned paintings helped reinvent the art of portraiture, and now sell for up to $5m each. Here, he talks to Sean O'Hagan about his first easel, the unexpected blessings of dyslexia and why being in a wheelchair is no bar to painting 9ft canvases.