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A general clamor arose from the audience: “What about the eyes?” Mr. Bittenger replied, “They come later,” as he addressed himself to the hair and beard, which had been merely colored in without detail. He introduced highlights and shadow, giving depth and realism to the hair. He painted more colorful definition of the cheeks and forehead, touching up the still wet underlying paint by quick, bird-like dabs with his brush. An hour and a half had elapsed.
At last he said he was ready to put eyes into the sockets. He did so amid murmurs of approval. The face was now recognizable; indeed, viewers expressed amazement that such a likeness could have been accomplished in so short a time.
Someone asked about the glints in the eyes caused by the light shining on Judge Ginsburg’s face. Mr. Bittinger remarked, as he dabbed them in, that his audiences generally said “A-A-A-H” at this point. No sooner had the glints been applied than the dutiful audience exhaled en masse, “A-A-A-H”.
With the portrait now nearly complete, the viewers were invited to
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