Track and field art

[Stefanie]

@rj24

Beautiful work as usual Stefanie. It’s obvious when you know the subject of your art as you put a lot more feeling and expression into their faces. Your drawings of famous sprinters are nice, but the depictions of your friends and family have much more depth to them.

Since you like my family/friend faces, here’s one of my little cousin

[rj24]

Fantastic as always.

And sorry for being an idiot, but what medium are you using to create these? Pencils, oil pastels?

[Stefanie]

@rj24

Fantastic as always.

And sorry for being an idiot, but what medium are you using to create these? Pencils, oil pastels?

Thanks rj.
Most here are watercolors (like the last one), a few are oil paints (like the second to last one). The sister portrait on the right is color pencils.
Those three are my favorite mediums at the moment. I’m looking forward to experimenting with some egg tempera, but not quite yet…

[Stefanie]

Norman Rockwell reproduction.
Mom saw a picture of the original in a book and wanted it on her wall… :rolleyes:

[Stefanie]

Children’s book art

[kitkat1]

@Stefanie

Children’s book art

Great sense of balance in your works. Love the colours and simple lines as well.

[Stefanie]

(blue is a great color…)

[Stefanie]

:rolleyes: … friend got married …

[Charlie_Francis]

Great picture Stefanie!

[Stefanie]

(Thanks Charlie!)

(for the record, here’s the story:

@Stefanie

Allow me to brag… :o

I took the 6hr bus and went down there (Athens Grand Prix, July 13), watched the meeting with friend Nikoluski
After the 200, I went down to the warm up track looking for Bolt.
The night before, I had painted a portrait of him (I’ll post later), and I wanted him to sign it.

He was being massaged after his fabulous race, I went to the physio (I was actually waiting for 5 minutes before I got the courage to go, they already knew I wanted something and were staring at me ), asked if mr. Usain could sign something for me, so the massage stopped, and everyone was impressed I drew that (it’s not even finished…shhhh !!!) Usain liked it a lot (he asked me if I had another one, but I’ll send him another original, I had to have the signed one… :o ) we started chatting.

What a GREAT guy. To start with, it’s amazing to come across well known/famous people who will ask dozens of questions to someone who is pretty insignificant to them… I battled for my chance to ask questions, they were questioning themselves.

Then Bolt kept with his massage, and I spent the next 20minutes talking with his coach, Dawson (Patrick?). He told me about him being an elementary school teacher for 14 years, and how he misses it a lot, how he also taught tennis for some years (he found it hard to understand why I quit the sport competitively, he is very fond of it), then he told me a little about them being Jamaican, being a great team, training in England in the summer, liking Greece …

Both having been involved with teaching, we philosophized a bit about teaching and how much it helps with athletics; he said how much he’s received from that experience to become a good coach - but he also said he studied a lot too, to gain all the more specific information. He asked me about my students and he said he guessed that they are very good from looking at my art work :o , and talked about students (athletes) reflecting the abilities of their teachers (coaches).

Very insightful person. He’s only 38.

When I decided to leave, we didnt’ know exactly how to salute each other , so we started comparing greek/jamaican/american salutes.
Jamaican guys never hug or kiss, they shake hands and/or do a finger snapping gesture. Girls get the priviledge of being huged and kissed (lucky me…)

Bolt can have a new painting for every record he brakes.

p.s. Last Wednesday at the Thessaloniki meeting, I spent the whole second half of the meeting with Ghana’s Eric Nkansah, it’s been a good week celebrity-wise.

p.s.2. But celebrity-Nikoluski put up with me more than anyone

[oldspeeder]

Great pics Stef, and excellent narrative regarding your meeting with Usain Bolt, good to hear he is a nice guy, watch out for that Jamacian 4x1 @ the Olympics.

[rj24]

That is an awesome picture with an equally great story accompanying it. Keep up all the good work.

[Stefanie]

Friend’s parents. The daddy died shortly ago…

[Stefanie]

Another friend got married ! This is his gift :o

[Stefanie]

double post

[Stefanie]

triple post

[Stefanie]

quadrouple post… :rolleyes:

[Stefanie]

Jan Zalezny request

[dynamittom]

wow beautiful, their faces look very sensual. Nice one.

[Stefanie]

My friend with her man.