"Thinking Man"

What's on your mind? Well, join me as I share what's on mine. This is an illustration from the weekly drawing studio I attend in SOHO, NYC. It is the first "art class" I have ever attended where all pretense is dropped and everyone, model included, admit to a pure appreciation of beauty, beyond message, beyond statement, and sometimes even beyond style. (NOT a self portrait!) I am a big proponent of that - art for the pure adoration and enlightenment of beauty. For after all, isn't there enough glorified ugly in the world? Why not embrace the attractive?