Charcoal Expressions

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.

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Juliet#1    $100 matted, unframed; $200 framed

charcoal and acrylic on paper
24 x 20

Juliet#3    $100 matted, unframed; $200 framed

charcoal and acrylic on paper
20 x 24

Juliet#4    $100 matted, unframed; $200 framed

charcoal and acrylic on paper
24 x 20

Juliet#5

charcoal and acrylic on paper
24 x 16

Juliet#7    $100 matted, unframed; $200 framed

charcoal on paper
20 x 24

This portrait was in the Jacoby Arts Center juried show July 10 – Aug 23, 2009
To see this portrait and other selected works in the show visit the Jacoby Arts Center website at this link

http://www.jacobyartscenter.org/html/slide.html

Charcoal portrait
24″ x 20″

NFS

I’ve been married to this handsome dog for 25 years and he’s awesome!

Charcoal portrait    $100 matted, unframed; $200 framed

20″ x 24″

Charcoal portrait    $100 matted, unframed; $200 framed

20″ x 24″

Charcoal portrait  $100 matted, unframed; $200 framed

20″ x 24″

This didn’t make it in the show, but I still think it fits the theme.