Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, from Paul Revere’s Ride: The Landlord’s Tale, 2002, by Charles Santore (Collection of the artist)
realism, in the sense of having Copley’s jowly guy riding a horse. I wanted it to be the Paul Revere of the imagination, just like it is the horse of the imagination, as we described earlier. I hired a model for the figure of Revere and started doing rough sketches from life and just kept working them. This is not my traditional starting point, but because the book takes place at night I wanted to figure out the relationship between the characters and darkness. It gave me a sense of the tonal values, then I used those as a guide to develop the finished pencil drawings, the color sketches, and the paintings.
CHARLES SANTORE: FIFTY YEARS OF ART AND STORYTELLING
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