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![acrylic painted portrait of a couple whispering](/images/2011/2011DavidGwenn.jpg)
Whispering
2011
acrylic on both sides of a canvas bag
13 x 18 x 4 inches
I painted these two double portraits from stills taken from a video that I made of my partner and I talking. Using stills from a video allowed us to be more natural than if I’d set the timer on my camera, and it’s a trick I used to get my source image for this self-portrait and this one too. You can watch the making of one side of this bag.
![whispering painted portrait by Gwenn Seemel](/images/2011/2011DavidGwennToDavidD.jpg)
![double painted portrait by Gwenn seemel](/images/2011/2011DavidGwennToGwennD.jpg)