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 week you get to see sketchbook drawings again, woo hoo! These are colored marker drawings I have done over the years. I drew, then colored, the people.
“A Spotted Woman with Flyer’
Most will have symbols and images familiar to those who have seen my work over the years. I would love to know your thoughts on those symbols and the drawings in general.
Another in my series of portraits. She was modeling for our local photo group. I walked away from the group, looking around the back of this barn they were using. I found this gorgeous rust and metal wall and immediately went back and stole the model away for a brief amount of time to get this shot.
I love doing portraits with one eye closed. There is something so disconcerting about it at first. But it then also allows you to think about two different aspects of the person at the same time, and how they coexist. Plus it just looks really cool.
Another in my week of portraits. This is a dancer/model from the Tulsa Ballet who posed for our photo group in the spring of 2008. I don’t know her background, but I see a real Russian look to her with her eyes and bone structure in particular.
Another in my week long series of detailed portraits from the last few years. This one is of a dental hygienist where I get my teeth worked on. She is much prettier than this photo shows since I manipulated it extensively to bring out all the details of her skin texture.
This is a series of black and white images that I worked on to create a very painterly, beautiful and moody feel to them. I wanted them to look hyper real yet very other worldly at the same time.
