Who are the artists that draw portraits of Black people?

Artists that are realistic and specify in portraits?

• I’m currently doing GCSE art and my topic at the moment is ‘portraits’, I have to do visual pages on artists where I analyse their work and say what I like about it and what I don’t and draw/paint examples of their work.. Our teacher has given us some artists like Andy Warhol and Leonardo da vinci and most people in our class are doing them. I was hoping to do something more original and have something with colour, please could you tell me some realistic looking portraits by artists which then I could develop into my own work to help me on my final piece please, I would be thankful for all comments,(if there is nothing that is colourful I could look at other artists and do separate page of an artist that uses colour and then combine both into my final piece) thanks again:-)!

• Answer:

  Check out Carel Willink. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel_Willink I bet it is exactly what you are looking for. Here are some paintings http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oG7ihxR4RPtg8AVGdXNyoA?p=carel+willink+portretten&fr=ytff1-tyc&fr2=piv-web