I apologize that the quality of these photos aren’t better. It was a commissioned piece for my stepsister of my nephew, Jax. I gave it to them at the family Thanksgiving. She showed it to Jaxon who smiled and pointed at it making a happy noise. She asked who it was and he said, “daddy”. …
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Made the ink wash background on my birthday (art nerd who wants to spend birthday at home playing with inks) and drew the portrait in maker, pen, and colored pencil.
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More Doodles
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just some quick doodley ones.
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i do love goldenrod. somewhere in between these two are the real shades.
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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.
34/52 A Portrait a Week
Catching up on those weekly portraits! I had a lot of plans for myself yesterday. As a mild headache rolled in around lunch time, I continued with my to-do list, not looking that headache directly in the eye. If it can’t see me, it can’t get me, right? Avoidance doesn’t work with headaches. By the…
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…
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…
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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