Maggie Toole...색연필 그림, 주로 초상화

The human form is fascinating to me. The flowing shapes that bend or stretch or fold or change simply because of a person's mood. Forms that may follow the same blueprint, but are not quite the same on any two people. I love catching the subtle differences in every different person's look...or in the same person for that matter...because they just woke up or because they are under water or because they are sad, or maybe they are thinking of something very wonderful. Each of those things changes them, and I can never tire of a subject matter that is so constantly fluid.

Creating the technique I call Circulism, as a derivative of Pointillism, was my way of incorporating a painting style that I loved with one of my favorite tools, the pencil. What happened next came more natural than anything before it, and from the first piece I drew, there was a magic about it. Using colored pencils, I draw no lines at all...only varied, unending, overlapped and intertwined circles. Building seemingly transparent layers, incorporating all color. As in pointillism, the distant viewer's eye fuses these into realistic shades of human flesh, hair and life.

 

 

 

 

Getting Lost
Colored Pencil on Board
32" x 42"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Idle Warmth
Colored Pencil on Board
44" x 34"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bringing The Outside In
Colored Pencil on Walnut
21" x 31"
2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mother
Colored Pencil on Board
24" x 22"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes You're Out Of It, Sometimes You're In It
Colored Pencil on Board
24" x 36"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why
Colored Pencil on Clayboard
12" x 9"
2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He Knows
Colored Pencil on Clayboard
12" x 9"
2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Examine Me
Colored Pencil on Board
9" x 12"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Turning Back
Colored Pencil on Clayboard
12" x 9"
2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Matter How Long It Was Dark
Colored Pencil on Clayboard
25" x 22"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything You Could Ever
Want In A Man
Colored Pencil on Board
44" x 14.5"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lower Left Hand
Colored Pencil on Paper
25.5" x 19.5"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secrets
Colored Pencil on Clayboard
12" x 9"
2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fire In The Head
Colored Pencil on Clayboard
12" x 9"
2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Empty The Man
Colored Pencil on Panel
24" x 18"
2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Was Wishing
Colored Pencil on Clayboard
12" x 9"
2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surveillance
Colored Pencil on Board
44" x 11"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dreamer
Colored Pencil on Clayboard
34" x 20"
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