Artist Uses Pencil, Graphite, And Charcoal For Portraits

Artist Uses Pencil, Graphite, And Charcoal For Portraits

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Numbers of artists stay away from difficulty of recreating emotions, moods, or fleeting moments in portraits. One courageous, self taught artist displays his portraits on his living room walls in the home he shares with his wife in Marion. It took some time for him to complete a grand montage of an American tap dancer, an actor a scientist, the composite between three famous comedians, the traditional cast members of a long running science fiction TV series, a former TV reporter, various rock stars, athletes and entertainers, and his friends. The process starts by capturing a frame from a video, from which he gets all sorts of expressions. Only people who touched his life during the year and a half he spent painting the montage were included.

Then he has other portraits, individual ones, of the lead singer of Babes in Toyland, a Russian gymnast, and a songwriter. He favors pencil, graphite, and charcoal for his works. His toolbox was filled out by conte crayon and then colored pencils. For his first colored pencil drawing, he used his wedding photo, taken with his Japanese wife, who is originally from Kobe. It gave him a chance to experiment with combinations of traditional American drawing and Japanese wood block print. Taken at City Hall in December 1996, their close up wedding photograph serves as the basis of this drawing, which he enhances with personal and Japanese symbols.

The couple's three cats, obviously not at the real wedding, are in the drawing. The artist drew one cat's face to resemble a mask from a Japanese opera believed to chase away evil spirits. Another cat is supposed to represent good luck, and he drew it in the proper position.

Kimonos are the outfit of the day for the couple in the drawing. He decorated his wife with the kikyo flower, which is her matriarchal symbol. The third cat is strategically placed to draw the eye to the gingko tree, behind the vertical blinds and outside the room. A tree at the University of Iowa inspired him to include the gingko, a sign of longevity.

This 1997 drawing marks the first time the couple worked together. His wife was in charge of idea generation and evaluation. The drawing has high sentimental value for them, said the wife. He would be delighted if he could conquer landscapes, as long as he can insert the figures he likes to draw so much.

He has never had his own exhibit, but his work has been published, four inside and one cover, in a book. It was a staff member who pushed his artwork to the book editor. The editor, in an email, extolled his artistic techniques, combination of portraiture and architecture, and expression of intelligence and humor. His childhood days of drawing action heroes and rock stars have given way to virtual masterpieces. Now, he can adequately express his perceptions on paper. First, he perceives reality, which he improves with his own additions or abstractions.

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