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CHICK ARTISTIC CREATIONS |
| Beverly Chick |
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| GALLERY 3 - PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE, PETS, CELEBRITIES |
| Color or Black & White portraits |
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MY LATEST COMMISSIONED PORTRAIT |
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Portrait of "Riley" 9 X 12 Colored Pencil & Turpenoid |
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NEW BEAUTY AND THE BEAST THEME ART PORTRAITS |
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During a
semester break from college, The "art fairy" (or muse) got me and I was inspired to do some portraits based on
the old 80's television series, Beauty and the Beast with Linda
Hamilton and Ron Perlman. I was a huge fan of the show. Recently I
rediscovered some of my old dusty B&B VCR tapes and a a Beauty and the Beast
CD with music and poetry. This gave me some really fun ideas for a new
portrait and I became very motivated to do some B&B artwork.
The portrait on the left is called 'O Sweetest Song.' The actual portrait extends more to the left and right sides than this shows. The portrait is made with colored pencil & Turpenoid but the rest of it is a collage. I used parts of sheet music from the theme song to Beauty and the Beast, and at the bottom I have two lines of poetry from the series. The rose is a photocopy of a watercolor I painted many years ago. The poem says, "Across what instrument have we been spanned? And what violinist holds us in his hands? O Sweetest Song." |
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Detail from "O Sweetest Song" |
"O Sweetest Song" |
Prints of this can be purchased on www.myfineartstudios.com |
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Another Beauty & The Beast romantic portrayal of Vincent and Catherine called "Moonglow." It is a mixed media piece made with colored pencil, Turpenoid, acrylic and pastel. This is very different from what I usually do and it was a lot of fun to create. Prints of this can be purchased on www.myfineartstudios.com |
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"Moonglow" |
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This Beauty & The Beast Portrait is called, "Thy Sweet Love Remember'd." It is based on a Shakespeare sonnet that is one of my favorite poems. It is also a mixed media piece made with colored pencil, Turpenoid, glitter paint and collage. |
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"Thy Sweet Love Remember'd" |
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This
pencil portrait from Beauty & The Beast is something I did way back in 1989.
I resurrected it and added the glitter and the poem.
The quotation is from a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke: "Whitely, he stole up to a
maid--to be within the silver mirror and in her."
You will note that I posted two versions of this piece. Version two has some transparent paper called Vellum or Duralar that makes the mirror images look like they are in the distance. I liked it because it gives he art a touch of the 3-D look.
Either version of this can be purchased online at www.myfineartstudio.com
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Version 2 - With Duralar paper over mirror images |
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Portrait of Katharine Hepburn Featured on Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Blog Site |
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Katharine Hepburn (see "Celebrity Portraits" below) is featured on the home
page of the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center and Theater blog site:
www.katharinehepburntheater.org
This blog site was created by Ann Nyberg. Ann is on the Board of Trustees for the soon to open (in July 2009) Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Ann emailed me in December and asked if she could use my portrait of Kate on her blog site and I said yes. Apparently, she had seen it on the Web Digest Weekly online newsletter. |
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EXAMPLES OF ACTUAL PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS These are actual portrait commissions that I have done in the past two to three years. |
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My Portrait of Princess Diana Published in Coffee Table Book! |
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Published in 2007 by Caxton Publishing, compiled by Mem Mehmet. My portrait is on page 97.
See the Chick Chirp newsletter for more detail
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Portrait of Princess Diana (Original is 16 X 20) |
Cover of Coffee Table Book |
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TYPE OF PORTRAITS I OFFER |
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| Graphite Pencil Portrait (with or without a colored pencil background) | Full Color Portrait (Colored Pencil or mixed media) | Rock Animal Portrait (animal portraits only) See Gallery 2 for more info on rock animal portraits. |
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Actual Rock Animal 'Stone Critters' Commissioned Portraits |
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"Barbie" |
"Molly" |
Boston Bull Terrier Rock |
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CELEBRITY PORTRAITS |
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Celebrity Portraits From the Golden Age of Hollywood |
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These portraits are available in 8X10 prints for $4.00 each |
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| Cary Grant | Clark Gable | Audrey Hepburn |
Bette Davis |
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These celebrities happen to be some of my favorites from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood. With the exception of the Bogart portrait, which I did when I was in college many years ago, all these were done recently and now hang in the downstairs of my house, which has been turned into a TV/entertainment room with an old-time Hollywood movie theme. |
| John Wayne | Katharine Hepburn | Humphrey Bogart |
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CELEBRITY PORTRAITS IN COLOR & BLACK & WHITE |
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"Dr. McCoy" 16X20 Colored Pencil & Pastel |
"Our Hero" (Portrait of Steve Irwin) 16 X 20 (colored pencil) |
"Geraint Wyn Davies" from the TV show "Forever Knight" 81/2 X 11 Graphite Pencil |
"Within the Silver Mirror" 11 X 14, Graphite Pencil with silver acrylic glitter paint Inspired by the 80's TV show 'Beauty & The Beast' |
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GALLERY OF PORTRAITS Color or Black & White Click onto small image to view a larger image |
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"Puppy Love" 11X14 Colored Pencil & Pastel
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"Bed Time For Bonzai Pete" 11X14 Colored Pencil & Watercolor (A portrait of my cat when he was a kitten, 4 months old) |
"Playtime" 11 X 14 Colored Pencil (The same cat on the left as an adult) |
"Maynard with Gold Ball" 12 X 16 Mixed Media
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"Maynard In Pink Basket" 11 X 13 colored pencil & watercolor
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NOTE: Portraits of pets can also be done as "Stone Critter" Rock Animals. See Gallery 2 for details |
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"Sad Eyes" 81/2 X 11 Graphite Pencil and Colored Pencil |
"Persian Cat" Colored Pencil |
"Maynard on Roses" 12 X 16 Mixed Media
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2011 PORTRAIT PRICES For Graphite Pencil & Colored Pencil Portraits Only Please note that some changes have been made in pricing for 2011 |
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| SIZE | PRICES | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| 8X10-9X12 Little to No Color (mostly graphite) | $90-$130 | Head or Full Body. No more than two images. Can include extras. |
| 8X10-9X12 Full Color (Colored Pencil) | $140-$200 | |
| 11X14-12X16 Little to No Color | $150-$240 | Head or Full Body. No more than three images. Can include extras. |
| 11X14-12X14 Colored Pencil | $250-$350 | |
| 14X18-16X20 Colored Pencil (This size looks better in full color.) | $360-$600 | Head or Full Body. No more than four images. Can include extras. |
| "Extras" are things like pet toys, personal items and special backgrounds. There is an extra charge for these. Prices are general "ball park"and may fall outside the range given if there are a lot of extra images, etc. | ||
| I do portraits mostly
from photographs, preferably more than one. These need to be provided
by you. You can mail them to me or send by email. If you want a
pet portrait and you live nearby and don't have any photos of your pet, I can come
over and take the photos myself. If you are providing the photos,
make sure they are good photos that are clear, in focus and show lots of
detail without a lot of shadows.
I prefer not to do two originals of the same photo. If you want me to create two originals of the same person, they need to be from two different photos. I no longer do 5 X 7 size portraits. (They are too small and I don't want to do miniature portraits.) If client requests a portrait with lots of extras (special backgrounds, multiple images, etc.) I will present a printed estimate of the costs before starting the portrait that lists the individual charges and the final total. There is a 6% sales tax for Idaho residents. |
