October was an exciting and eventful month for Bob Dorsey the portrait artist. While fellow artist Trent Day was helping me recover from hair neglect, he offered me a chance to paint one of his lovely hair models. He had great images from a recent photo shoot, so I...
Hondo’s latest art project is to create 20 Artist Trading Cards so that he and his Mixed Media classmates can trade each other and have a nice collection of other artist’s works. He started with a pencil drawing of a character he created named Fat Lord...
During the Thursday night art event at Image Brewery, a mural collaboration began, thanks to Lakeland’s most famous muralist, James Hicks and his truck full of spray paint. Watch it as it grows.
Self Portrait as Samuel Dorsey – Blacksmith – Born 1799 in Virginia. This is the second stage of the portrait series – my self portrait as my ancestor. Samuel was a Blacksmith in the wilderness of Virginia. He married Nancy Nutter in 1823 and they...
Self Portrait as John Dorsey – Pioneer – Born ca. 1756 in Maryland. This is the next stage of the portrait series in progress – my self portrait as my ancestor. John Dorsey was a pioneer. He boldly left Maryland sometime after 1799 with his wife Arah...
I’m currently working on 9 “Imagined DNA” portraits of my ancestors. Each canvas is 27″ x 53″ I start with a drawing and project it to the canvas where I sketch it out or sometimes I paint directly from the projection. This assures the...
