A favorite piece

This piece is particularly special, as Max not only branched out into a new style of portrait with more emotionality (we'd been looking at Modigliani's work at the Met), but also added acrylics into his graphite drawings.

Step 1, profile and frontal portrait.  Sketch only.

Step 2, add acrylic.   Voila!

I've been remiss! Art from the late spring .....

Max has been going crazy with his portraits.  This one is framed in the kitchen.  Notice the skateboarder on the t-shirt, and the portrait he is holding in his hand.  This was done in May, and most of the following were done in the late spring.  I'll post more recent pictures in the next post. 

Max at work.

The artist at his morning station.

Working on fists, one holding an axe.

Profile work.

Quick sketch portrait of mommy.

Head structure and shading.

Eye contours.

An example of a doodle page.  He was learning the anatomy of the head to understand what was under the skin and why a portrait would look the way it did.  Then lots of individual facial features.

Showing the steps to making a profile. 

Jedi in action.

Full body profile Jedi in action.

Trying a new style.