Tag: portraiture
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Have we met before? You look familiar.
Pretty boys have been around for a long time, and I’ll be the first to say that I’m not the only artist out there working on this subject. I would like to think that I’m doing something different and unique with the idea, but I’m also just one in a long succession of artists that…
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SPB: Single Pretty Boy
I’ve updated my Indiegogo campaign, pretty boys kill me, to show one of the examples of the original drawings that I am giving away to contributors who give $200 to my campaign. These are the drawings that I’m using to plan out my larger patterned drawings, but I love these small portraits, as they are so delicate. Here…
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Pretty Boys Kill Me in Reykjavik, Iceland
This September, I have the amazing opportunity to attend the one month SIM Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland. While I’m there, I will be working on my new drawing project, pretty boys kill me. This series of large scale drawings is entirely done in coloured pencils on paper and so far, I’ve finished one drawing. This is…
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In Good Company
I received an e-mail a couple of weeks ago from the Kingston Prize organizers that on a trip made to Australia last fall, they had gone to visit the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and suggested that they feature the Kingston Prize in their quarterly journal, Portrait. The gallery happily agreed to share the information…
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Love is touching souls
Earlier this summer, I was gifted a found photograph. It was a lovely group portrait of Québécois tourists in the Rocky Mountains. I’m assuming it was taken in Alberta (I can’t identify the exact mountain), and I’m not sure when the photo dates from, but I’m guessing sometime in the early 1960s perhaps. There are…