Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Two faces and a sketch for a pastel

This is my middle great-nephew:



This is my cousin, whose unexpected death in early 2006 shocked all of us:



This is a sketch to base a pastel "painting" on. I'm also considering doing a second one, with the same background, but with the figure much closer in, a la an athlete telling a camera crew to stop filming:

3 comments:

enig said...

that top portrait is really good cooper

Sheila Ryan said...

Alek said almost exactly what I want to relay to you. You really captured something with that portrait of the "middle great-nephew".

Cooper Renner said...

Thanks very much. That one actually looks like the little squirt too!