The Roadside Artist

This is a portrait of Christa, rendered in charcoal on regular drawing paper. Except for the use of drawing paper, this would be a bit more of a formal type of portrait sketch. I believe it shows a lot of personality and charcoal, because of its nature, will last far longer than any photograph.

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President Bush in a quick portrait-caricature sketch. Yes, once again I’m scraping the rust off of my charcoal sketch skills, this time with a quick impression of President George W. Bush, a la fair/event/party-style fast and furious art work.

This work is done in the quick and dirty style of a art fair / party sketch or caricature artist. With my ‘no erase/no return’ policy, this art work ends up somewhere on the continuum between caricatures and portraiture.

It really is NOT a political commentary.

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Portrait slash caricature quick sketch of American Idol’s Sanjaya sans mohawk hairdo. Maybe I’ll do that some other time. Keeping up with my charcoal work, this portrait sketch walks the line between portrait and caricature. Yes, I know his singing was…well, sub par? And many people wanted him gone a long time ago. But he was still the most interesting character.

I followed my policy, “no erasing, no repeats” - if were doing a formal portrait, I’d do many revisions, but this is the quick and dirty style of a special event/county fair artist. Because of this freeform, quick open style, this work of art falls somewhere in the continuum between a portrait drawing and a caricature sketch.

And that is just fine, as far as I’m concerned.

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A charcoal portrait of the quick and dirty variety, like I might do at an event or fair or a party. Generally, I prefer graphite for this sort of thing, but I have to keep myself proficient in this medium, too.

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