Artist Name: Allan kirk

Location: France

Title of Artwork: Porto Riverside

Dimensions of Artwork: 27 x 22 cm

Medium: Pen and wash

Support: Cartridge paper

Website: http://tarnincolour.blogspot.com/

Describe this Piece: Sketched from a cafe on a short break to Porto in Portugal.. A classic historic european city, down by the riverside has beend designated a UNESCO world heritage site.

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Your Name: Guillaume

Location: Paris

Title of Artwork: Chistoph Leray

Dimensions of Artwork: 24×32 cm

Medium: Monolith Graphite pencils

Support: 180 g/m2

Website: http://www.tonalpainting.com

Describe this Piece: This is a drawing style I invented that is based on the Tonal Painting Method called an ‘Estompe’ which is ‘to blur’ in French. There are no lines only statements against the form. This is a portrait of the Editor in Chief of ‘Le Courrier’ here in Paris. http://www.lecourrierdelarchitecte.com/expoconcours_352 This work will exhibited in Paris the week of April 14, 2011.

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Artist Name: J D Hillberry

Location: Westminster, Co

Title of Artwork: A String of Memories

Dimensions of Artwork: 14 x 18

Medium: Charcoal and graphite

Support: White watercolor paper

Website: http://www.jdhillberry.com

Describe this Piece: This entire image is drawn including the background, tape, and string. It is considered trompe l’oeil drawing. Tinker Toys, Yo-Yos, Jacks, and Lincoln Logs and are some of the toys that baby-boomers grew up with. These toys from the past represent a much simpler time that many people yearn for. A photo captures a moment in time, but I’ve drawn the Yo-Yo string in a way that links us to the past.

Artist: Paul J. McCall

Location: Blackstone, Massachusetts

Title of Artwork: “Late Fall Country Road”

Dimensions of Artwork: 8 ½” x 11”

Medium: Pen and Ink

Support: Paper

Describe this Piece: I did this piece in 1984 strictly from imagination. I began with the barn and let the rest happen. Now that’s freedom.

Artist: Robert Reynolds

Location: Clinton, Tennessee

Medium: Colored Pencil

Dimensions: 22″ x14″

Support: Poster Board

Comments From the Artist: I’m a 70 year old retired carpenter/cabinet maker and factory worker. Presently living in Clinton, Tennessee, inflicted with end-stage emphysema. It progressively got worse in 2006 to the point where I am unable to do much of anything, except return to pencil drawing, which I haven’t done for some 20 or 30 years. At least I can still do that .

I’ve drawn over 400  No.2/HB pencil drawings since starting again in 2006. I was considered legally blind in 2007, but with cateract surgery and implantation of artificial lens in both eyes, I now see better than I ever have in my liife. I didn’t do much of any drawing in 2007 from the disability. I was introduced to Prismacolor pencils by a very fine artist on-line and bought a set and started using them as well, occasionally.

This drawing is my drawing of William Adolphe Bouguereau’s 1887 “Fardeau Agreable”  or  “Not too much to Carry”.  I drew it on a piece of poster board 22″ x14′ to keep my expense down as I’m on fixed income of Social Security.  I admire Bouguereau’s work so very much that I’ve done quite a few of his fine works….