Meet Los Angeles-based artist Jesse Mockrin, the artist behind one of Billie Eilish's portraits featured in the March cover story.
Just before Thanksgiving, when I asked the Los Angeles–based artist Jesse Mockrin if she was interested in doing a portrait of Billie Eilish forshe said yes without missing a beat. Before the day was out, she sent an email containing five sketches of Eilish. Each one was based on a different historical painting .
I was nervous I wouldn’t be able to capture the likeness required for this kind of portrait. I don’t use projected images in my painting because I want my hand to come through in the work, so it was a challenge to make sure her features came through. In many ways her face is reminiscent of other faces in my work—the deep-set eyes, small nose, and full lips. And it was fun to paint Billie because of her striking contemporariness—the hair, the nails, the jacket..
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