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Christee — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:16 +0000

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Juliet Series-summer 2009

Christee — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:10:05 +0000

Recently I’ve been experimenting with painted backgrounds and looser styles of drawing. This series of portraits of my daughter-in-law, Juliet Cook, were inspired by her unique self-portrait photographs. Not only is her subject beautiful, but her ability to obtain such varied looks using different angles, hairstyles and expressions make her compositions a joy (and a challenge) to draw. Thanks, Juliet, for sharing your talents and allowing my imperfect interpretations of them.

Aislyn

Christee — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:26:45 +0000

This portrait of Aislyn is helping raise funds for the Edwardsville Arts Center. It’s being shown as an example of my portrait work and I’ve donated a free ($200 value) portrait to be auctioned off at the EAC’s 2009 annual fundraising dinner at Neruda’s Restaurant. Can’t wait to put up the resulting portrait. I’ll keep you posted.

Charcoal portrait $100 matted, unframed; $200 framed
20″ x 24″