Small Portrait of Jana Knauerova from AW11 Casting New York

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Small Portrait of Jana Knauerova from AW11 Casting New York.  9x12 ink on Bristol paper.  I'm not sure if Jana still has this hair style but I loved it on her.  The short blonde pixie cut with her skin tone blended together in a continuos tone interrupted by dark eyebrows (Brooke Shields intensity brows) and her piercing eyes.  She has the most beautiful eyes with dark rims on the outside of the iris.

Duckie Was Latino

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I never believed that Duckie’s Name was really Phil Dale.  I realize I misspelled Zoot Suit, but I going to leave it anyway.  I make this artwork on the fly and the mistakes make it more human and I think more humorous.  I’m sure there are more mistakes in grammer in there as well.

Small Portrait in Profile of Anais Mali from Fittings AW11 Runway New York

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Small Portrait in Profile of Anais Mali from Fittings AW11 Runway New York.  9x12 Ink on Bristol Paper.
Anais reminds of a dancer. She is elegant with high cheek bones and a long graceful neck.  Smart, beautiful, and strong.  

I love DC Characters But I Read Marvel For the Writing

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I Love DC Characters But I Read Marvel For the Writing.  9x12 Ink on Bristol Paper.

Today this statement is a moot point because the writing for both brands as well as independents is tremendous.  Years ago, before and during the late '80s comic revival, this was was true.  Thank you Miller, Gaiman, Baron, Claremont, and Moore and many others for making comics amazing again- for writing that competes with the artwork.

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Small Portrait of Tao Okamoto from Fittings AW2012 New York.  9x12 Ink on Bristol Paper.

I stopped cold when I first saw Tao at a casting.  She had her Peggy Moffit Vidal Sassoon 'bob' hair cut.  Who was this beautiful woman?  I finally was able to meet her last year during casting and fittings while she had this pixie cut.  Very cool, very beautiful, very professional- wonderful to work with.  The shows I have seen online it looks like she is growing out her hair.  At the Akris show in Paris it looks like they gave her extensions.  She looks amazing in anything.  If you haven't seen this Emporio Armani Campaign Video, she takes a star turn.

Small Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

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Small Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.  9x12 ink on Bristol Paper.

Yesterday was Lincoln's Birthday.  I didn't get a chance to post this yesterday, so I'm doing it a day late.  The story goes that a young girl wrote Lincoln and suggested he would look better with a beard and that prompted him to grow his iconic goatee.   This is based on a younger Lincoln probably a newly elected Lincoln.

Small Portrait of Hanaa ben Abdesslem

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Small Portrait of Hanaa ben Abdesslem.  9x12 ink on Bristol Paper.

I took some quick snap shots of Hanaa in casting and what a beautiful women she is.  Comfortable with her strength and that hair of hers looks amazing.  She has a kind of Isabella Rossellini presence about her that is very magnetic.

Rodin Brancusi Noguchi

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Rodin Brancusi Noguchi.  9x12 Ink on Bristol Paper.

I always admired these three men.  A legacy of modern art that also relied on a tradition of apprenticeship.  Brancusi was the apprentice of Rodin, and Noguchi was the apprentice of Brancusi.  What fascinates me about this relationship of art, generations, and modernism is how distinct each artist is, but reading about their thoughts on form, abstraction, and movement you can see how ideas were passed down to each artist.  I find that this relationship is slowly disappearing in the teaching of art.  I learned my craft from mentors, but never in a full emersion apprenticeship.  Maybe this is nostalgia speaking.