Dirty Filthy Art: Charcoal
Featured Work
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Marilyn Monroe by tlstudios
Charcoal Portrait
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Bear Kiss by Heather Ward
There is a great challenge with drawing white animals. I’d been thinking about the polar bear for a while, then one of my reference photos spoke to me. I added the cub and the icy background. This will be the first in a series of mother/baby drawings. Polar bears are still listed as a “vulnerable” species. Melting polar ice makes it harder for the bears to find food. Charcoal on Strathmore smooth bristol paper, 17”x14”, 2009.
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The Swamp by Adrian Pickett Jr
Fl Gator in the Swamp 18×24 charcoal on paper
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Dimitri's smile by Emma Brooks-Mitrou
charcoal and pencil portrait (A3)
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Company by Margaret Harris
Graphite Pencil with Charcoal / Archers drawing paper 18×24 / Pencil drawing of young boy about aged 10 and his dog in the dim light looking down to the lower floor to see whose the stranger is. / This is a piece I did at least twenty-five years ago that I forgot was even there. Something different. It tells a story.
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f o u r by mimi yoon
her name is seattle / and this is how she became seattle… . ramon: she’s cute… in a dark kind of way… patrick: is that what you looked like when you were a kid, mimi? mimi: ummm ramon: nope…. mimi and i looked alike when we were kids. patrick: well, she has your lips for sure, mimi… are you guys related? mimi & ramon: no~ ramon: i think she’d live in a place where it rains all the time… like seattle…. her name should be seattle sherowski…. patrick: she should be just seattle… like seal… jin: she doesn’t have a last name because she doesn’t have a dad…. she ran away to seattle…. ramon: her mom’s always drunk… jin: she ran away to seattle to look for her dad… mimi: ummmm….. patrick: she’s pippi longstocking gone emo…. ramon: you should give her freckles…. on her shoulders and arms too… mimi: she has ‘em already…. even on her earlobes… evan: and she never talks… ramon: she only nods her head… mimi: and shakes… ramon: seattle’s really cute…. patrick: yeah… mimi: ok…. time to clean up, kids…. go home…. . 4/100 for 1000 girls in 100 days / (96 more to go…. what have i gotten myself into?????) . charcoal on newsprint / digital (photoshop) / og 18”x 24” (cropped) .
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I am Listening! by Paul Horton
Charcoal/Pastel on Paper (Midnight Murano – Black) Paul Horton Gallery
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Jigga by Adrian Pickett Jr
30×40 charcoal on matboard
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Dive by Heather Ward
The peregrine falcon is the fastest of all animals, and it wouldn’t do to have her just sitting there. When the falcon hunts, it flies high overhead, looking for prey. Then it folds in its wings and dives, headfirst, and knocks out its unsuspecting dinner. This high-speed dive is, unfortunately, the reason for the most common injury to wild falcons – they cannot see power lines and crash right into them, resulting in severe wing injuries and sometimes electrocution. A portion of sales will go to The Wildlife Center of New Mexico for wildlife rehabilitation. Drawn in charcoal on Strathmore smooth bristol paper, 2009.
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Chief Dan George by Margaret Harris
BW Portrait, Chief Dan George, Graphite on Coquille drawing paper..cold press / Graphite from 2H to 9B and Charcoal..Coquille paper is the paper I usually use for my work…It has a stiple surface and takes graphite very well…. Chief Dan George has been Featured in / The Eyes Have It / Fan Frenzy / The Elderly / Who Needs Color For Beauty / 1 0n 1 Fine Art of Portraiture / Spirit of Native America / Wild West Show / Imaginative Realism / Mature Men / Black in Back / !st Place Avadar Challenge ..Placed on Home Page / I did this piece about 23 years ago / / Chief Dan George was born in 1899, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. and died in 1981 in the same place. He was chief of the Squamish Bandof Burrard inlet, British Columbia from 1951 to 1963. Besides television and the movies, he was also a successful Canadian stage actor. He was a successful poet. Wrote two books of poetry. My Heart Soars 1974, and My Spirit Soars in 1982. He was in several movies such as Little Big Man where he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor 1970. He Always insisted on playing “good” First Nation characters. Until 1959 (when he was 60 years old,) he worked as a longshoreman, logger and itinerant musician. He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) in 1971 for his services to Canada. He has a public school named after him in Toronto, Ontario and he is commemorated on one of a set of postage stampls ussued in 2008. / This portrait was on “Home Page”
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Sergey Yesenin by Anastasia Zabrodina
original sold charcoal pencil on watercolor paper 50×70cm / Sergey Yesenin / A Letter to The Woman Yes, you remember, / You certainly remember / The way I listened / Standing at the wall / As you walked to and fro about the chamber / Reproving me / With bitter words and all. / / You said / That it was time we”d parted, / And that my reckless life, / For you, was an ordeal, / And it was time a new life you had started / While I was fated / To go rolling downhill. / / My love! / You didn”t care for me, no doubt. / You weren”t aware of the fact that I / Was like a ruined horse, amidst the crowd, / Spurred by a dashing rider, flashing by. / / You didn”t know / That I was all a-smoke, / And in my life, turned wholly upside-down , / I was in misery, downhearted, broke, / Because I didn”t see which way we were bound. / / When face to face / We cannot see the face. / We should step back for better observation. / For when the ocean boils and wails / The ship is in a sorry situation. / / The world is but a ship! / But all at once, / Someone, in search of better life and glory, / Has turned it, gracefully, taking his chance, / Into the hub of storm and flurry. / / Well, which of us / On board a mighty boat / Has never brawled nor barfed nor fallen down? / There are not many of them that will not / Despair when they”re about to drown. / / / Me, too, / To loud hue and cry, / But knowing well what I was doing / Went down to the hold where I / Might keep away from scenes of spewing. / / “Hold” was a Russian pub / Where I / Drank, listening to the loud bicker, / I tried to stop my worries by / Just drowning myself in liquor. / / / My love! / I worried you, oh my! / Your tired eyes revealed dejection, / I didn”t hide from you that I / Had spent my life in altercation. / / You didn”t know / That I was all a-smoke, / And in my life, turned wholly upside-down, / I was in misery, downhearted, broke, / Because I didn”t see / Which way we were bound. / / _____ / I do not regret, and I do not shed tears, / All, like haze off apple-trees, must pass. / Turning gold, I”m fading, it appears, / I will not be young again, alas. / / Having got to know the touch of coolness / I will not feel, as before, so good. / And the land of birch trees, – oh my goodness!- / Cannot make me wander barefoot. / / Vagrant”s spirit! You do not so often / Stir the fire of my lips these days. / Oh my freshness, that begins to soften! / Oh my lost emotions, vehement gaze! / / Presently I do not feel a yearning, / Oh, my life! Have I been sleeping fast? / Well, it feels like early in the morning / On a rosy horse I”ve galloped past. / / We are all to perish, hoping for some favour, / Copper leaves flow slowly down and sway… / May you be redeemed and blessed for ever, / You who came to bloom and pass away… / / 1921 / _____ / The golden birch-tree grove has fallen silent / Its merry chatter having stopped afore, / The cranes up there flying over, sullen, / Have nobody to pity any more. / / Whom should they pity? Each is just a trotter. / One comes and goes and leaves for good again. / The moon and hempen bush above the water / Remember all those perished, filled with pain. / / I”m standing on the plain all on my own, / The cranes, the wind is taking them away, / I think about my boyhood which has flown, / And I do not regret my bygones anyway. / / I don”t regret the days that I discarded, / I don”t feel sorry for the lilac of my soul. / The purple rowan burning in the garden / Can”t warm and comfort anyone at all. / / The rowan will maintain its coloration. / The grass exposed to heat will not decease, / I drop my words of sorrow and vexation / The way a tree drops quietly its leaves. / / And if some day the wind of time intended / To rake them all up in a useless roll… / You ought to say: the golden grove has ended / Its lovely chatter in the prime of fall. / / 1924 / *____ / The Bitch / Translated by Daniel Weissbort In the morning the bitch whelped / Seven reddish-brown puppies, / In the rye barn where a row / Of bast mats gleamed like gold. / Licking their pelts smooth, / And underneath her, the snow / Melted out in the heat. But at dusk, when the hens / Were roosting on the perch, / There came the grim-faced master / Who stuffed the pups in a sack. The bitch bounded alongside him, / Over the snow-deep fields, / And the icy surface of the water / Shuddered a long, long while. And when at last she struggled home, / Licking the sweat from her sides, / To her the moon above the house / Seemed like one of the pups. Whimpering loudly she gazed up / Limpidly into the dark, / While over the hill, the slender moon / Slid into the fields beyond. And softly, as when someone, / Jesting, throws her a stone, / Her tears, like golden stars, / Trickled down into the snow. 1915
Recent Work
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Untitled by MegJay
Female Nude / Charcoal
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Taking Cambrai by tlstudios
Charcoal Sketch
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Blockhouse Blow-Up by tlstudios
Marines blowing up a Japanese blockhouse, Iwo Jima, 1945. Charcoal Sketch
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"Volumptous Curves" by Rayven
charcoal, 11×18ish part of the “Beauty and Obese” series. SOLD
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Dead or Alive by Alaina Stocker
Done in white and black charcoal and colored pencil on tan construction paper. 18×24. Also… my first done from observation! Yay colleges, be proud of me! Accept me!
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e i g h t e e n by mimi yoon
. i’m writing a song for you / and it starts with / i’m sorry…. . though april is my favoritestest model, / i was not inspired to draw last night / that is until she gave us this pose….. april’s figure and pose / with one of my girls’ face… . larger view 18/100 for 1000 girls in 100 days / (catching up… behind by only 3 ;P ) . 11.17.2oo9 / charcoal on newsprint / digital / 18”x 24” .
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Superman vs The Incredible Hulk by tlstudios
Charcoal ~ 8×10
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The Swamp by Adrian Pickett Jr
Fl Gator in the Swamp 18×24 charcoal on paper
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Miss Golightly by Adrian Pickett Jr
Audrey Hepburn 30×40 charcoal on matboard
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Bear Kiss by Heather Ward
There is a great challenge with drawing white animals. I’d been thinking about the polar bear for a while, then one of my reference photos spoke to me. I added the cub and the icy background. This will be the first in a series of mother/baby drawings. Polar bears are still listed as a “vulnerable” species. Melting polar ice makes it harder for the bears to find food. Charcoal on Strathmore smooth bristol paper, 17”x14”, 2009.
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Study by adelechanel
Charcoal on Paper
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The Window. by adelechanel
Charcoal on Paper / Drawn at dusk with the last light of day
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