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….

Artist: Brenda Levasseur

Location: Massachusetts

Title: The Window’s to Our Soul

Dimensions: 33″x23″

Medium: Charcoal on Stonehedge paper

Comments From the Artist: I have been drawing since age 11. Mostly self taught from books, in 1982 , went to a night art class with Joseph Souza for about 6 months, sold a few portrait pictures then didn’t draw for about 21 yrs..I took an oil class with Susan Cabral in South Dartmouth in 2003, she asked me to do one of her commissions in charcoal and haven’t gone back to oil. This charcoal was done in 2007… I used compressed charcoal rubbed on paper and transferred with a tortillion. I put on dark and lift to light, blending with stump ..

Artist: Jade

Subject: North American Sioux Indian

Dimensions: A2

Medium: Soft Pastel