The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-25
PICTURES OF PRETTY GIRLS
4 MIND or ILLUSTRATIONS
TIE PTBLIC MUST NAVE.
Chat win e. Allan Gilbert. the Pretty
GiFt Artlst-ActFesses HIS Best Models
Formulas % Beauty-The Artists
Part IN the Making % the Picture

Part IN the Making Of the Picture
C. Allan Gilbert. known as the pretty
girl artist has been caught with the
goods on. 20 TO speak. From tho ease
before him smiles half complete speci
men Of the familiar type. scarcely two
hours old. while across the way. stacked
against the wall. a pensivs sister gARes
forth. On the walls. on tables. from within
the covers Of closed portfolios almost
scores Of Gilbert beauties bear mute
witness against him. The artist plead,
guilty.
The people want them he explains
and then quickly adds calamity. mot
that done like 20 make them: but the
fact is that the people seem crazy over
pretty girl pictures.
They want them In magazines. on the
covers Of magazines. In books. on calen-
dars. on posters. It's even hard for thu
artist 60 work a man in. The publisher
keep telling how many more copies they
sell Of a magazine number with a pretty
girl Cover than Of an equally good number
with a cover 81 another sort. and clever
! too.
! 1t seems a. Il people would get tired
and want something else. the demand
has worn 30 many years. hut they still
want pictures q girls. pretty girls Of
every conceivable variety; girls in evening
dress, girls in canoes and girls with tennis
racquets, girls standing up and girls
sitting down. in automobiles, in sailboats
and on horseback; brunette. blond. ~
neither; the only requirement being that
! they be pretty
Therein lies the greatest drawhack .
CONTINUES the artist As rule people
want the faces to he too pretty. Just that
utter regularity 81 feature and form
7 you know. used 10 like placid faor
Of that sort myself. but I've outErown
all that he confesses.
What 10 your mind constitutes beauty
In a womani'
Good features in the first place. nat
urally.- h. answers. and good lines
and good colorinR hut there's got %
IN something else too. character. SUD-
pose you'd call II. Il h. variations IN this
that make types a. well a. variations
in tho physical characteristics Tho
trouble with people generally Is that
they arr satisfied with perfection on the
physical counts % the exclusion Of ali
eiss.
1t takes mora than beauty. with
all its attributes. h make a good model:
hall 81 her success lies in catching the
artists idea. getting the spirit u tho
thing. The good model HkAs posing.
play acting. she dresses herself NJ IN H.,
costume required and becomes for tho
time heing the person the artist IL trying
b represent.
For this reason most 81 the best models
arr those that have heen on tho actual
stage, not chorus girls. FOR real acting
generally - the last thing a chorus girl
can do, but a genuinely good actress;
and Il 10 for this reason YOU find ~ many
that arr both actress and model they
like the Improvisation n IL all
a desirable model. combining ali
these thinEs. and eyolashes can hettsr
b. spared than adaptabiHty. for the
artists imagination can betisr supply
the former. is a treasure. She ia hard
10 find and hard 20 hold.
Usually she disappears into the VOID
after about a season at the most. and
you are left stranded. looking eagerly
at all tho beauties your friends keep
volunteering n bring 10 YOU and az those
who volunteer 20 bring themselves:
and you are lucky when you get hold
Of another that's really desirable.
There are many WAYS u happening
upon one that suits ] once Jaw a news
paper reproduction Of Photograph
which Immediately struck my notice
went with Il 10 the studio from which
u had come and made inquiries. found
that II was Impossible To secure the ser
vices Of tho original. a. she had left town.
but the photographer recommended
some ons else who was of the same TYNE
| followed mp his suggestion and found
ono of tho bast models I've ever had.
-Of course in an emergency you can
always get temporary help from the
Models clue
Send mo down a good looking hand. /
telephone. and the good looking hand in ]
due time Appears.
The artist depends lot on the inteIli- !
gent model IN the matter u dress too:
this must be up 20 date in the case Of the
pretty girl or the public. tho feminine part
az least. won't consider her pretty; but
q must not he extremely 20. because the
drawings appear sometimes a year or
more after their completion.
-Of course women friends are always
wiling TO help with suggestions on these
points. but the satisfactory model il a
wonder when ig comes 20 the m litter Of
clothes. She can take the most disrepu-
table looking old costume. give il a twist
here. a pin there add transform Il. and
herself in t. into the beautiful ideal your
fancy had Coniured but which you had
not the slighteat inkling Of knowing how
20 make real. You notice that the picture
giri's couture is always more or less up %
date or appropriate also. The model also
looks after that
But the pictures are not hkeneaspa
Of the model . you say. IAN artists tyne
is easily recognizable through several
models.'
That has 10 be-. else he wouldn't be an
artist smiles the artist NO matter Z
uho o. what d sitting beforB him. he has 1
aArr'tdy seen ne picture Ia bic mind. has /