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About the Artist
I've been fascinated with faces as long as I can remember.
A small detail can make an amazing difference in capturing someone's likeness and
personality. Even the placement of an eyelash can change a portrait's
expression and what it says about a person. In drawing a
face, you can sometimes feel what that individual feels. Art is a wonderful
vicarious experience, especially if you're drawing a tiger.
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My subjects are portraits of
people and
animals and are characterized, hopefully, by a high degree of accuracy and dramatic contrast.
I work mostly in dry media such as charcoal, graphite and pastel but
occasionally explore painting and mixed media.
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In some
future time when I'm retired, I'll have a
chance to focus on painting, but for now dry media provides the spontaneity required by my
schedule. I can walk past a work-in-progress, see what needs adjusting
and do so without mixing paint or cleaning brushes, then
go about the rest of my weekday. Saturdays are reserved for uninterrupted art time.
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For portraiture, I like to
work from photographs, with finishing details done from life sittings if I
need more visual information than the photograph provides. |
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