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The Cast of "Oliver"
I recently was involved in a project for our local theater that proved to be a wonderful promotional project for my work. I was influenced by forum member, Debra Jones, who posted her works from the cast of Much Ado. Since I live in a small town and know the director of the theater, I felt it would be a fun project. The charcoal portraits are of some of the cast members of "Oliver". I took my own photos, albeit in some difficult lighting situations, but tried to make the best of what I had to work with.
The cast finally got their costumes two weeks before opening night so I did all of the portraits in less than two weeks including my own matting, framing and hanging the show (this is where my lovely husband earned alot of brownie points for his help!). It was a marathon of long days and nights drawing, drawing and redrawing to capture the likenesses.
I sold three of the pieces and have been contacted by several people who saw the show and already recieved commissions for an oil portrait and a mural. I had brochures on display featuring my work.
There were 900 tickets sold over the two weeks of the show so it was a great way to have a lot of people see my work. The theater has a nice little gallery area in their annex. This is where the tickets are sold and also where they have refreshments during intermission.
All of the pieces (except one) are 23 in x 17 in on Canson Mi-Tientes, Pearl (warm gray). They were matted with white and hung in simple black frames.
A special thank you to Debra Jones for sharing her great idea!
Cynthia
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