The Roadside Artist

I have given up painting. Well, not exactly. Instead, I’ve spent more time working on portraits and caricature sketches of people. It’s a good party and event skill, but sometimes I lose track of what I’m doing. I don’t want to forget how to do these things.

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Sketching when done right has an interesting way of bringing out a person’s character and emotions. It’s hard to explain but you’ll see it in this sketch.

Media Guy
10″ x 14″ graphite, by Pagani 2006
There is no truth in art, every line is a lie - as in life. Yet art IS truth, for it belongs to the world of that which is unseen. The lines reveal what lies beneath the truth … and above it.
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Beyond freedom and dignity, there is the inner drive to produce. It allows us …it requires of ME, that I continue to press forward with art even though what I do seems to be seriously underappreciated. Light and dark, they are everything. Lines are nothing. It is life.

Mary Brown in Charcoal
Chriss Pagani
10″ x 14″

Charcoal is the medium of light and shadow. It is not about the line. In that sense, it is like life… lines are few, shades are many. So there it is….

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