You
know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, photography,
drawings, paintings, AI. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a
link back to my blog and please use the image below.
Thank you.
A few of my readers have asked how long it takes me to draw a portrait. When I first started drawing faces I could get one finished in an hour or so. I will admit the faces were NOT very good. As I've developed my own style and I've learned to add more details it does take me much longer. However, Mr. M. tells me I am fast at getting a face done. Lately I work a few hours at a time taking all week to finish one. Also I draw on different sizes of paper, that makes a difference. I have sketched a piece this morning and will time myself on it and let you know. I have seen a lot of artist that create hyperrealistic art and give the hours that it took. Personally unless you are selling your art I don't think it matters as long as you are having fun.
Which in this case I had a lot of fun creating this one.
She is one of my favorite actresses,
Olwen Fouéré
I did use this photo as a reference, turning it from color to black n white and working from both.
She started like this
The next photo
Starting to get some details in. Like the little scare above her left eye.
I know some art teachers say to put in the details last but I can't seem to work that way
I finished her up like this. I see a few things I should have done differently. However, I really enjoyed creating this.
Monday we drove over to Eugene to see my new gastroenterologist. I absolutely love her! BTW her name is Nicole so what's not to like. LOL
She young, so personable, listens and hears what I was saying and gave excellent advice. I'm so glad I got her.
Tuesday, Mr. M. had to have his heart shocked. In June at his annual cardiologist visit he was told he has
A Fib. Don't ask me why it took so long to get this procedure but it did. Mr. M. had no reaction from the
A Fib he didn't feel any different. Thank goodness we were able to have this done here in our town. All of the medical staff are fantastic here. The actual procedure only took 4 minutes and Mr. M. is back in normal rhythm.
The procedure took 4 minutes, getting checked in and set up for it took an hour.
The rest of the week is filled with medical appts for both of us. Seriously we live by what's on the calendar, and I don't see any fun things at all.
This would be so nice.
I hope all of you are having a happy and healthy day today.
SITAR is about ANYTHING art. Your art, someone else's art, writing, photography,
the art of cooking, the art of sewing and textiles. Sharing historical
art, street art, a story about art. Do you have a question or need help
with art? Write a blog post and link it up here. We will all try to help
with it. My only rule is that if someone asks for critique it must be done with generosity and consideration.
This is a place of learning, encouragement and inspiration.
I'm thrilled to introduce to you
Lisa Bufano.
Please watch
Lisa was born to Louis A. Bufano and Elizabeth "Betty" Bufano in 1972 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Lisa was an active child being in ballet and tap dance classes and competing in gymnastics. Let us not forget she was a go go dancer while she attended Tufts University. Then tragedy struck. Lisa contracted a life-threatening staphylococcus bacterial infection at age 21. There is no public information on how she contracted the infection, but the bacteria entered her bloodstream and triggered a rapid, severe systemic response (sepsis). This compromised her vascular system and blocked circulation to her extremities, ultimately making bilateral lower-leg and total finger-and-thumb amputations necessary to save her life.
She
graduated from Tufts University in 2003, and later from the School of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) that same year. She worked as a
web developer at the Museum of Science in Boston. She left that post in
2005 to pursue her interests in sculpture, stop-motion animation and
other forms of the visual arts through The Contemporary Artists Center
Residency in North Adams, Massachusetts
After losing her limbs, Lisa began her performance and dancing career when a professor
at the University of Linz doing research on the lives of amputees discovered her web page and offered her a stipend to perform in Vienna. She toured from 2006 to 2010 with the AXIS Dance Company. She preformed works variously choreographed by Victoria Marks, Joe Goode, and Kate Weare. Her audiences where in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Canada, and performed to a packed house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as well as at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and Judson Memorial Church, among other venues.
Her dance work typically incorporated a variety of prosthetics and props (such as using wooden Queen Anne table legs as legs and arms),
but also included segments where her unadorned body was the focus of the performance.
According to Bufano she manipulated her body as a way to explore
alternative locomotion.
At age 34 she ran several miles a day on
high-tech carbon fiber prosthetic legs.
Lisa did not publicly label herself as a "lesbian." Instead, she identified under the broader "queer" umbrella.
While she explicitly stated that her work explored her sexual identity and was created for and alongside the artistic LGBT community, she preferred fluid terms rather than strict identitarian models. In both her life and art she identified with the "queer/crip" a movement, a community and framework that intersects queer sexual identity with disability pride.
Lisa listed among her influences medical drawings, historical wax
models, dolls, and optical toys; flip dolls and paper dolls; the
structural aspects of Japanese jointed dolls, Hans Bellmer's doll work, Louise Bourgeois' cell installations, and the animation of Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay. One of her main projects was a white muslin
dress which turned into a squid, for which she sewed thousands of
detailed suckers.
"She loved sewing sculptures made of fabric," her
brother remarked in a remembrance. "She had a thing for the creepy-cute,
the exotic, the bizarre. Things that were dark but also beautiful.
she explained her aesthetic and political goals when she claimed that:
Despite
my own terror and discomfort in being watched (or, maybe, because of
it), I am finding that being in front of viewers as a performer with
deformity can produce a magnetic tension that could be developed into
strength. I attempt to channel this tension by exaggerating the mode of
physical difference (for example, presenting myself on stilts).
She likewise explained during her time at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
My eye
has always been drawn to abnormal forms ... It's just that now my tool
is my body. I'm still animating a form, but it's my own form ... I'm not
an astounding dancer ... But being a performer with a deformity, I find
that there's a gut response in audiences, an attraction/repulsion
aspect to it that can be compelling. I just hope that there's a balance
between that gut response and the substance of a performance
Lisa Bufano died by suicide on October 3, 2013, in San Francisco, California; no suicide note was found. Two months later, her brother reflected on the inexplicable nature of her death.
"I'm
surrounded by speculation about why Lisa took her own life. Facebook, friends, family members, and her fans would all like to know. They want
it to make sense to them. They want to feel okay. Ultimately they want
her back.
But I am having great difficulty with all of this. Lisa didn't like
other people projecting their idea of who she was on her. We'll never
understand why. It will never make sense.
I believe she lived her entire life and that her life was many lives. I
don't believe it was cut-off short. Her mission was completed and she
must have understood that fact when she departed from this world. She
was alone with her dog in her home in the middle of the night.
More than a year after her death, her work, along with that by Cara Levine, Shari Paladino and Sadie Wilcox, was included in Four Choreographies at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery in Berkeley, California. A further retrospective was held Storefront Lab in San Francisco in 2015
Five open mouths
This is an artist I knew nothing about. There is a lot of information about her art but not about her private life or the private lives of her family.
I have left several links that if you are interested in Lisa you should click onto.
You
know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, photography,
drawings, paintings, AI. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a
link back to my blog and please use the image below.
Thank you.
Hi Everyone!
I've been waiting all week to show off this piece of art. Now, all of you know I do NOT claim to be any kind of an expert at graphite portraiture. However, seeing my drawing skills improve is incredibly exciting. I put a lot of hard work into this piece, and I am thrilled with the final result.
Let me know what you think, and ya know be kind. LOL
The first photo I got was this one. I had already sketched her out and I want to get started on the bonnet.
I actually didn't realize that part of the bonnet is all kinds of rolled and folded fabric. Also a 3/4 face is difficult for me. I'd rather go straight on.
I thought I would do her redtop in colored pencil. However, even with many layers it just wasn't dark enough. I went over all of it with red pastel and then put in the folds and shading.
I'm very happy with her. I only wish I had better lighting so the photos would come out better.
Many years ago while I was visiting my daughter and her husband in NC. We drove to SC and Myrtle Beach. I can't begin to tell you how much fun we had. We are at the wax museum. Yeah sculls and skeletons run in my family.
He just couldn't help himself. LOL
My SIL was stationed at Quantico for several years. I visited them in Virginia and of course we spent time in DC. I can't remember exactly what was going on then, but the White House was fenced off and no visitor allowed.
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