Updates

Upcoming Shows:

Peddler's Village Fine Art and Contemporary Craft Show, Lahaska, Pa.  June 7&8.  This is a beautiful show at a lovely location.  

People's Choice Festival of Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts, Boalsburg, Pa.
July 10-13.  170 of Pennsylvania's finest artists.  Easy access location with flat grounds.  Located on the grounds of the PA. Military Museum

I hope to see you at these shows!

A Generational Portrait.  This drawing was done as a gift for my two daughters.   They are shown on the left at ages 25 and 26.  That was me in the middle at age 26 and my mother next to me at age 18.  Her mother  was a young mother of 23.  It was fun to draw the young women spanning a century of time.  What made me chuckle was when someone commented that the three "sisters" on the left really resembled each other..

Work in Progress

Sailing the Chesapeake  is shown as a  Work In Progress.   This portrait shows a young woman taking the wheel of a sailboat while on a mini cruise off Inner Harbour in Baltimore.

You may  be interested in the process by which I draw my portraits.    First I sketched the portrait,  then transfered it onto Bristol Smooth  acid free board.  I did it in this manner so that my paper would remain  clean without any erasures when I begin the actual drawing.  After key lines are transfered, I begin to lay in the values.

Once I have established some values, I begin blending and building more and more layers of graphite.  An average one person portrait will take approximately 20 hours to complete, of  course, this one took much longer because of the size.  The finished piece measures 19x24 and will be approximately 25x30 when matted and framed..

Sailing the Chesapeake is a large portrait and therefore these pictures were taken with my digital camera rather than scanned.  I must apologize for the quality of the shots.  

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