Category: Drawing

35 & 36/52 A Portrait a Week

This one is overdue.  My best bud of 8 1/2 years, Amelia the dog.  You can call her Meems. Small drawing with bic pen and chartpak markers.  With bleed-through on both pages from other drawings. And one more. Amelia remains unimpressed.

32/52 A Portrait a Week

Neko Case.  She’s been a steady favorite of mine since my dad bought me Blacklisted the year it came out.  Her songs are beautiful, smart, complex, and a little dark which is exactly what I love.  Her voice is rich velvet, strong, and haunting.  Plus she’s right in my singing range so you can bet…

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31/52 A Portrait a Week

I’m finally caught up!  31 portraits down and I’m back on schedule. I listen to a lot of Andrew Bird.  I never tire of his albums and his music is the kind that I could ‘live in’.   So I drew his portrait in those smelly Prismacolor/Chartpak markers and a fine tip Staedtler pen. There…

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30/52 A Portrait a Week

A self portrait in Chartpak ad markers and Prismacolor markers with Faber-Castel artist pens. This is from a photo from last summer.  My friend Stacey was visiting with her husband and some friends.  I took them to Max Patch, of course, for some wine and a picnic.  We went for a hike around the mountain…

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29/52 A Portrait A Week

Amelia, the person! I’ve been using facebook to find photos of the friends I have been doing these marker portraits of.  Since Amelia’s not a narcissist like the rest of us, she’s not on facebook and her instagram included almost no pictures of herself.  Except for this one- she’s wearing a hat she had just…

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27/52 A Portrait A Week

This is Kelly Jean.  Worked from a picture of her I found on Facebook, and added the text from her most recent update on the left.  It’s drawn with a pack of ink Faber Castell landscape artist pens and those awesome crazy Charpak Ad Markers- I only have three of those so the colors are…

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