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Great feeling of emotion - Love how that's been captured in very few lines, just enough to convey the essence of that person across beautifully. Very well done drawing!
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Thank you. My family teases me that it is a "depressed Bob Marley", so I'm glad someone other than me understands what I was actually going for...
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It's a beautiful little drawing - I think its one of my favorites you've done, actually. I'm not looking forwards to showing my family this years work in a few weeks either - no idea what they'll say when they figure out its grampa in the drawings. /: Oh well.
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I know how you feel. I've got a lot of artists in my family and showing them my work is a daunting prospect some times...
Still, you've got some good figure drawings and portraits to show them. (And hey, if they're too critical, give them a stick of vine charcoal have them try it. Messy... 
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Ah - no, what I'm showing I haven't posted yet - most of the recent work I have is handed in and not online, its printmaking things. Part of the problem is that I....wanted to look at exploring some personal things, and a lot of the work has to do with the idea of memory, and loss of memory (dementia)Noone else in my family is a visual artist, though my brother acts a bit and does music. Don't have that problem
Glad you liked my figure drawings - haven't done much of those recently. Miss that class.
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Printmaking is not my favorite medium; it's too methodical, but I love to look at them.
Ah, yes. Bringing up personal concerns and experiences in art can be hard, for the artist and the others involved. I'm sure your family will understand that art is your way of dealing with these things. For what it's worth, I think you have an amazing amount of strength to do a series on something so close to you. I have built a certain wall of detachment between me and my work, which I think is my biggest artistic problem.
I miss anatomy drawing class too. They have open figure drawing sessions once a week at the University here, but I never manage to arrange things so I can go.
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Yeah - I went once during summer last year on my own time - I miss my figure drawing class. Nice to know I can go to a place that offers it though. Nothing beats figure drawing 
Printmaking is one of my favorites
Detachment in some ways is a good thing - I know I had to keep a certain amount of that particularly when I had to get up and talk about it - I spoke very impersonally, was the only way I could do it. Need a connection and a reason to create art though - for me, simply making it for the reason of making it isn't always quite enough anymore, has to have something more to it. Not always but more so I'm finding. Certainly I think it's helped to have a strong sense of what I want to look at....hopefully grown a bit.
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I'd love to see your recent work. I liked lithography the best of all the printmaking techniques.
Detachment can be good in some ways... but it can be bad too.
I draw portraits because the infinite variety of human faces intrigues me. I love a face with experience and character written on it. Really young faces are like blank canvases, which can be interesting too.
I don't think I make art just for art's sake. It is more because I have to. It is an internal compulsion. I get incredibly hard to live with when I haven't drawn for a while...
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Aww, thanks. I'll try to post some more of it online when I get the portfolio back - only a few got posted, under Serial PSD in the gallery I guess, since one was a submission that needed a photo and the other two were stored with it. or I'd not have bothered till later. Not that much there though - it all got handed in. Looking forwards to litho.
I didn't mean art for arts sake - although that is fun sometimes. 
I liked the models in lifedrawing class a lot - we had a proff who tried to get a large variety of people in, young, old, male or female. Was good experience.
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My professors were like that too. Variety is such a gift.
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Something good can come out of really bad days... if one can pick up a pencil without snapping it in half...
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