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Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project
Sometimes it’s fun to participate in group efforts, one of which is the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project. I had to pay a little money to receive a little journal book in the mail, but it came quickly and I immediately started drawing in it. I didn’t really like the paper, it was thin and…
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His sainted wife – self portrait #8
Having explored the faces of many earthly personalities, I decided that I must go the other direction. I wanted to paint a saint and give her my face. So I did. First I had to describe serenity, and then I had to have the model looking up to the sky. Would it work? Could it…
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Miss Viola Snodgrass, suffragette and schoolmarm, portrait #7
Today’s model was Miss Viola Snodgrass. She arrived at my house on her shining clean bicycle, wearing a long ample skirt and a white blouse with fabric-covered buttons. Once I had her seated, she did not move a muscle, but while we were talking she commented that this was foolishness, I could have used a…
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The Old Gypsy Woman – self portrait #6
Today my model humored me, she put on huge hoop earrings, hoping to fulfill the prophecy of her grandmother Maddalena, uttered 50 years ago. “You look like a gypsy!” As a gypsy, she told me, in accented English, that maybe it looks like her life is good, all she has to do is read palms…
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Through a glass darkly – self portrait #4
Totally emboldened by my artist friend’s words, I realized that my new model (me) was not going to get upset if I played a little bit with her face and created new people using her bones as my support. Who is that person in the picture? She really is a stranger, but in a funny…