Michael & Laura
Completed 25th October, 2008
Charcoal pencils, graphite pencils, and rembrant white pastel pencil on beige rough canson paper. 840mm x 594mm
I enjoyed doing this style so much on Evengeline that I decided to do a similar piece!
This was drawn specifically for my best friend’s birthday. It is of her son and daughter. She made this extravagant scrapbook photo album for my birthday, so I figured I would out-do her!
I got the tearful reaction I had hoped for.
This took me approximately 40 hours to complete, not including the reference photo search. It was actually two seperate photos in which i merged, deleted the other people in the shots, resized Michael and Laura so they were the samer size and printed it – I couldn’t find one picture of Michael and Laura together with out having to resort to asking my friend for a photo and ruining the surprise!
The reference photos were of different lighting and quality, so it was quite a challenge!
I actually completed this a week before posting it on Red Bubble, in case my name was googled, and this site was found! As soon as I gave her the present I eagerly posted it immediately upon returning home!
Michael & Laura belongs to the following groups:
1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture , Accentuate The Eyes, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Childhood, Children-The Power of Raw Emotion , Contemporary Pastel Painters (2 per day), Ebony and Ivory, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing (2 per 24 hrs), Realist Traditional Art, South Australian Artists, The Eyes Have It, Who Needs Color For Beauty? - Black & White Art At Its Best and Works On Paper
Susan E Ward
What a fabulous gift!
Beautifully done.
eelsblueEllen
Wonderful!!
Simon Aberle replied
Thanks so much eelsblueEllen!
stephaniek
Nice work!!!
Simon Aberle replied
Cheers stephaniek :)
Julia Thomas
gorgeous as always Simon – I should show you in photoshop how to get both the pics looking the similiar its quite easy to do. Also been meaning to tell you about my awesome graphics tablet thingy I just got its awesome I think you would get alot of use out of one.
Simon Aberle replied
Cheers Julia.
I messed around with the contrast and brightness etc, but either way I went, I seemed to lose important features in the faces, hence why printed two different versions of the photo (right), I got what I needed from parts of each, and it was purely a reference photo for drawing purposes anyway, not for keeps. I’d like to hear a bit more about this tablet you keep speaking of, send me a bubblemail!
Alexandra Felgate
Just gorgeous, beautiful work Simon!
Simon Aberle replied
Thanks so much!
zouzou
incredibly beautiful!!!
Simon Aberle replied
Thankyou!!
Rahul Kapoor
Simon Aberle replied
Wow thanks! that was unexpected!
Lynda Robinson
Absolutely marvellous work Simon! Congratulations on the well deserved feature.
Simon Aberle replied
Thanks!
Rahul Kapoor
This is a classic example or “Real” life… love the way you ‘ve shown the work in progress too..
Simon Aberle replied
Thanks Rahul I appreciate the feeedback :)