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Meet Raife & Harris. These two beautiful, energetic boys were so fun to draw: especially all that unruly blond hair of Raife�s & that very serious, intense look on the little one, Harris.
This is my latest commission piece. I used mostly .07 HB mechanical pencils with a touch of H, 2B & 7B Prismacolor Grahite pencils on Strathmore Toned Tan Sketch paper. For the Highlights I used white Prismacolor pencil and for the eyes, shades of blue, violet, turquoise, lavender & indigo.

Parts of my story are integral to why I do what I do, what motivates me and the emotions and ideas I am trying to convey through my work. CS Lewis said, in Till We Have Faces... The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing, to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from, my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing...The longing for home...For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. My mother told people the first thing I ever drew was a horse before I was three in the dust on the kitchen floor of the little white clapboard parsonage in the North Woods of Wisconsin. In 1963, our family took a trip Out West to Vancouver, BC,...