Woman Eternal

Woman Eternal"Painting female nudes is a very natural thing for a guy to do," says former Miamian Martin Hoffman, shown above in his new Manhattan studio with a huge Flying Tiger self-portrait. "I love their pure classical form, but I also try to make mine physical, to create a living presence on canvas with paint that picks up light like skin. So I use the traditional method of under-and overpainting; it's the simplest way to say the most with the least. What my portraits say, th...