The Portrait Project

Portraits of my Friends

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Time for a Lost Kitchen postcard. #postcards #watercolor #ink #sketching #lostkitchen @thelostkitchen https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBKKVsLQVQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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¡Vamos a México! 🇲🇽 #sketchbook #sketching #mexico #watercolor #pencil #hpsprocket (at Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaaBrJSLpYm/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Mary Whitney. 3/29/2021. From one of Mary’s photos. Watercolor and pencil in 8x10 Handbook journal and then into Procreate to play.

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Toussaint Saint Negritude. “You can’t stop a mountain.” 4/1/20212. Watercolor, ink, graphite, gauze in 11x16 Moleskine sketchbook.

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“I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.”

//Chuck Close

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“Listen... if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?” 

//Oriana Fallaci

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“I always try to get to the character and expression with the fewest strokes possible, synthesizing the faces as much as possible and contrasting voluptuous textures with clean strokes.”

//Jorge Arevelo

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Meg Barclay. 10/29/2015.

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Jorge Alderete//Illustrator//Portrait quote.

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Toussaint St. Negritude. 3/29/2021. From a photo taken by Wes Sterrs. First study on 22x30 Oil on Arches 300 lb no gesso.

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Henrik Abrahams//Illustrator//Portrait quote.

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Paul Denckla. 4.23.2021. Photocopy, ink, and oil in 11x16 sketchbook.

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Mary Whitney. 3.28.2021. From one of Mary's photos. Watercolor and pencil in 8x10 Handbook Journal.

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Ruth Bader Ginsberg/ 9.18.2020 “A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom”. #rbg #ruthbaderginsburg #watercolor #sketch #hpsprocket #caddis https://www.instagram.com/p/CFUo4ZisSli/?igshid=hrllvlq4im0k

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Arjun is a meditation buddy that lives in Paris. He sent me a funny picture of himself so I sent him a postcard portrait complete with mantras. #watercolor #portrait #hpsprocket #meditation #mantras https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjsiyfMqY8/?igshid=hw3plzovxm95

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Sketching this morning with Bob Richards, Truth Hawk, and Max Holden. #gouache #hpsprocket #sketch https://www.instagram.com/p/CDh5cvEsJsg/?igshid=1ojmf4bs42xyl

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“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” ~ Ernest Hemingway #ibow #cat #hemingway #wip #watercolor https://www.instagram.com/p/CDPh5WeMymW/?igshid=3px9y9857u0s