Winning Portrait

**Sherry** · 9th January 06, 03:34 PM

I thought y'all might like to see the portrait that won Best of Show and People's Choice in the 2005 Portrait Competition of the Portrait Society of America.

Beautiful painting, but, oh, the jacket...

http://www.portraitsociety.org/confe...ners/daily.htm

**Colin** · 9th January 06, 03:48 PM

oh! I see what you mean about the jacket.

Unfortunately I too made that error in my early days of kilt wearing.

I will never make that mistake again. It just doesn't look right.

Great portrait though.

**GMan** · 9th January 06, 04:21 PM

Great portrait. If only I could get my beard to look that good.

**Blu (Ontario)** · 9th January 06, 04:33 PM

Yeah... the jackets not good. The tartan tie is another little faux pas.

**Southern Breeze** · 9th January 06, 04:40 PM

The jacket and tie make it a good what not to wear referance. :grin:

**flyv65** · 9th January 06, 04:55 PM

Yes, I realize that the rule of thumb is no tartan above the waist save for the flyplaid, but I don't find it that offensive to see a small amount of a matching or complementary tartan like in that portrait: it's certainly better than his "peekaboo" sporran look, which distracts from an otherwise unoffensive painting. I could see myself wearing a v-neck sweater with a white shirt and kilt matching tie, but I doubt I could put up with it w/out the sweater.

Bryan...just my 0.02$, but I've got a lot of pennies on my nightstand...