
I'm embarassed to admit that I promised to share this with the group, nearly a month ago. (How DOES the time slip away so quickly??) Another in my series dealing with the abolitionists, this piece is 24" x 24" on Gessobord, laid in with watercolor pencil as a ground, and completed with Prismacolor ArtStix. I wanted a lot of passion and energy with this one, to better convey the intensity of Frederick Douglass for his unfinished cause at this point in his life (approx. 1859), so working with the ArtStix seemed much more appropriate than with the thinner, more precise pencils. I'm pleased to have completed this in time for the opening of my Gettysburg gallery, Civil War Fine Art, at the start of my seventh season. I plan to hang the portrait near a window: I figure that he'll either bring visitors in, or scare them off -- that remains to be seen, I guess!