Day four of my week long series on ‘People of Color’. A regular customer of mine at the restaurant where I worked for many years. I didn’t mean it to be such a flat, graphic image but something about the lines on the sheet and pillow started me in that direction and it slowly built from there. It wasn’t stylistically consistent with my other work at the time, but the subject matter and the stripes definitely were.
I don’t know if she ever saw this drawing or not actually.
‘Portrait With Mask and Sunburn’, prismacolor on paper, 22″ x 30″
This collage is in a book called ‘Sketchbook with Voices’. It is actually a sketchbook of blank pages with an idea, question, statement or assignment by an artist. I got it way back in the 80s and decided to use it for photo sketches instead of regular drawings. This image is probably the only image in the whole book that has any drawing in it at all.
The black and white image in the background was taken by me during a photo shoot with a friend. My sister-in-law at the time knew that I liked tan lines and took the color photo of her friend while on vacation in Mexico and sent it to me.
You can see digital versions of this type of image, people in a museum looking at some huge photo on the wall, which is actually the photo of the person making the image. Just remember where they got the idea, ok? LOL
