"Merrily Millee": A Quick Pet Portrait

* When I say this is a rough sketch

 I also mean literally a “ruff” sketch! 

(For the owner, met & roomed with in semi-routine E.D. hospitalization)

9 in. x 11 1/2 in. hand-drawn pet portrait on Strathmore blonde charcoal paper using standard no. 2 mechanical pencils, a white chalk wand, a tortillon smudge stick, and gum eraser

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Marin "Seagirl" Celia

Portrait of a young woman in bloom, my niece

 (age 17) four months to the day of her passing

not long after sunset on July 5th of this year.

9 in. x 11 1/2 in. Strathmore charcoal paper in dove gray using standard no. 2 mechanical pencils, a graphite wand, a tortillon smudge stick, & gum erasers

 

~ May 7, 2008 - July 5, 2025 ~