Painted and Drawn Portraits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

DuchaneBlue.jpg (29419 bytes)

 Soft vine charcoal sketch from life on blue posterboard accented with acrylic using a fairly large brush and coarse strokes. Later digitized and modified as cut glass image.

Mom & MeII.jpg (35837 bytes)  mom_n_me.jpg (22287 bytes)  A pastel drawing of me and my mom riding a Harley.  We'd just returned from a trip to Montreal and my wife took the photo on the right  to commemorate the event.

OldMan_pencil2.jpg (40648 bytes)  A graphite drawing of a great old guy who loved to model for art classes.  Did he really look like Santa?  Yes.

Acrylics from old infrared photo.

Rachel

natalie.jpg (21811 bytes)  Natalie, a student in the drawing class.  

oldman3.jpg (88560 bytes)  Another graphite drawing that was subsequently manipulated in the computer to produce this pseudo-colored image.

 A 'drawing' of my grandparents from a photo taken in 1925 in Park City Utah.  It was originally drawn in watercolor pencils, then 'painted' with water, scanned into a computer, modified slightly and printed.  The printed image was then further drawn on and altered 'live,' and rescanned.  This process was repeated several times.  It was no longer clear what was done 'in vivo' and what was 'in silico,' but this was the final result.

 This is a portrait of my wife.  It was done entirely "in silico."   I was experimenting with a new graphics tablet a nd Corel Paint.  I like the ability to zoom and remix exact shade I miss the smell and the feel of the paints themselves.

Using just the eyes from the above image. And a little digital fill work.