Armando Campero

Armando Campero (Mexican 1930); Confession; charcoal on artboard;

A drawing by Fernando Botero. "Dibujo a la Manera de Velasquez" is a portrait, charcoal and pastel on cardboard in an earth-tone palette by Latin American artist Fernando Botero. It is signed upper right, "Sobre Velazquez Botero -1-27-60 Para Rita. el recuerdo de uno payaso". Fernando Botero, best known for his voluptuously rotund human figures, was born in Medellín, Colombia on April 19, 1932. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, along with his two brothers. He attended a Jesuit school in Medellín and from the age of 12 to 14, he attended a matador training school. The bull fight became a recurring theme in Botero’s early work and while he was in his early teens, he sold his pictures of bull fights in front of the arena. By the time he was 16 years of age, Botero was working as an illustrator for the local magazine El Colombiano. He also began writing articles about art theory, one of which, entitled Picasso and Non-Conformity in Art, led to his expulsion from the Jesuit school for its endorsement of Cubism. One of Botero’s important early works, Woman Crying...

Realism Portrait Drawing

Charcoal on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 33cm x 24cm, (66cm x 56cm framed). The work is framed behind UV glass and stepped gilded frame. Bortnyik was a painter and graphi...

Jenna Ringuette's "Girl Look Up" is an original, handmade charcoal drawing that depicts a female model in a striped robe looking upwards beyond the composition.

Mark Bradley Schwartz's (US based) "N.Z." is an original, handmade charcoal drawing that depicts the monochromatic portrait of a woman with long...

Paper paint charcoal collage fabric These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio...