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A portion of a piece I recently did for a client, will post the whole thing soon.

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Hi again! I'm back. I went away on a month long trip, which was awesome, and I'll post about that later, but for now I'll catch up on my Portrait Lab posts that have been waiting patiently for me in my sketchbooks. (The Trip was a month long trip on my dirtbike taking backroads and trails to the Mexican border and back, and is the reason there will be no posts in August. I was too busy being exhausted at the end of the day to draw portraits.)

Portrait Lab Hiatus

Portrait Lab is on hiatus until September 1.
Have a great August!

Portrait Lab July 11

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Another creepy-blank-stare-Victorian-child. I don't know why I paint them, I just can't help myself. This particular child is feeling blue today. I'm calling her "Penelope Prozac".

Portrait Lab July 8

More from the engraving experiments starting with the June 24 post.

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Some sketches for some personal projects I'm planning.

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I participated in the City of Calgary's Public Utility Box program, here are some of my portraits...

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Here's another print, but this time I went in with gouache and painted her face a bit. Sad little Victorian child. Why did they always look so desperately unhappy? Was it the itchy lace knickers?

This one also has some Chine Collé, (also known as Bits of Paper Glued To the Big Piece of Paper) - I had done a project where I silkscreened bikes onto rice paper and used that for bits of color.

Portrait Lab June 25

Here's my first print from the etched plate, unaltered, no Chine Collé.

Portrait Lab June 24

I took a printmaking class a couple weeks ago. It was super interesting, the funny thing was that I had no idea what I was signing up for. I just knew I wanted to take a class of some kind, and I've always been very interested in the various printmaking processes. This particular one was copper plate etching with Japanese Paper Chine Collé. Huh? Yeah. So we etched plates, we glued very thin paper onto other paper. We printed. We rejoiced.

I wasn't particularly enamored with my drawing, but by the time I realized that it was too late - acid etched drawing into copper! Doh. Next time I will spend more time on the drawing part, but for my first time, it was a fun experiment.

Here's a photo of my plate.