Portraits

     I have always enjoyed drawing and painting  likeness of people, men's portraits, women's portraits and children's portraits. My initial training was for fashion illustration and I think that training influenced my watercolor portraiture.  As a fashion illustrator, I did children's artwork for Lord & Taylor, New York, Men's art for Bullock's in Los Angeles, California, and women's fashion ads for Bonwitt Teller, Bullocks, Dillards, B.Altman's and many more across the country.   

     Recently, I began doing cut out silhouettes.  I remember posing for an artist in a Hartford, Connecticut department store around Christmas time.  I was about 7 or 8 years old at the time.  He cut my profile out of a piece of black paper while I sat very still watching him.  I still have that silhouette, and one of my brother too.  Knowing how much I enjoyed it, I did silhouette portraits of my daughter, Vallerie's, entire first grade class.  I kept Vallerie's silouette all these years and included her silhouette in the samples.