FARRORAVENKNIGHT
02-08-2007, 04:07 PM
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-Joan_My_Inspiration_For_Lady_Lilith.jpg
This is a mechanical pencil rendering using both a 0.5mm and a 0.9mm HB lead. It is a portrait of my late wife, Joan Leslie. I drew it on a 9" X 11" Bristol board. Joan Leslie is more my muse now that she is no longer corporal but spirit. Elvis Presley sung a beautiful love ballad -- in one of his early 1950s movies -- it was titled: "Your So Young and Beautiful" which I offer these few lines from the song as a dedication to how I feel about Joan Leslie even though she is no longer with me in body, I still feel her sweet soul and love emanating from GOD.
You’re so young and beautiful, you’re everything I love
Your angel smile, your gentle touch
Are all I’m dreaming of
Oh take this heart I offer you
And never set me free
Then you’ll be forever young
And beautiful to me
I hope to hear from you all I have more portraits and drawings about 18 threads -- please feel free to check them out. Most of them well have Joan Leslie's name in the title of the thread as well as Lilith.
Thanks, bk
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-Joan_In_Her_Modeling_Days.jpg
This is a charcoal drawing I did of Joan from a photo my brother took -- he is a professional photographer for equestrian magazines. The drawing is on a 16" X 24" Grumbacher drawing pad.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-BILL_AND_A_DRAWING_OF_JOAN_VER_1_2006.jpg
As you can see I love to draw big. Here is another scribble style mechanical pencil portrait of Joan -- when she was seventeen (based on a photo I took of her when we were first dating) on a 16" X 24" Grumbacher drawing pad.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-a_drawing_of_babes_and_robots_and_superheros__ver_-15.jpg
I drew this portrait of Joan in 1974 when she and I were still teenagers (she was 17 and I was 19 and we had just gotten married) she used to love to poise for me. Joan was a very beautiful young lady who was taken from me when she was only 43. However, Joan Leslie will always be my muse. As you will see in more drawings in this thread. I did this with an HB pencil on vellum 9" X 11"
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-PROFILE_OF_ELVIS.jpg
Now I change to pen and ink drawing of Elvis here to show you a profile. I love doing profiles, because they are so delicate and you have to be dead on accurate of whom ever you are drawing, if you want your drawing to look like that person. Have you ever had the experience of trying to draw some one and they end up looking like some one else? Is this a subconscious act or do we just goof up some times? I bet I throw away five to six false starts evertime I start working on a portrtait. This is a small drawing 5" X7" on printing paper -- roughly 9" X 11."
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-A_DRAWING_OF_VINCENT_PRICE_BY_BILL_KENDALL.jpg
This is a drawing of Vincent Price I did in mechanical pencil ( 0.5mm and a 9.0mm) I was trying for photo realism. It is a large drawing another 16" X 24." It takes me about three days to do one of these, but I do tend to work on several drawings and several paintings during the day -- if I am not writing my ten pages per day quota on my book: LILITH'S CHILD. Try this link if you would like to see more of my work on Boris Karloff and Vincent Price: boriskarloffmonster41.tribe.net (This site is called: Boris karloff Lives.) Please let me know if you have trouble getting on these sites. Thanks bk
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-JIMMY_KENDALL_A_PORTRAIT_OF_MY_DAD.JPG
Here is a drawing I have rendered in mechanical pencil in a more impressionistic style of my dad -- who was my best friend. (My dad --although I was adopted by him into the Kendall family -- was very instrumental in me learning to read and write -- again -- after a hit-and-run driver nearly killed me (I sustained a very traumatic head injury which has left me deaf in my left ear and other learning problems, which I have tried to overcome) when I was seven. Dad also taught me how to draw when I was three, when caught me drawing in his huge dictionary -- you know, the ones that can crack coconuts open (I was drawing stick people then! This drawing is based on a photo of dad, Jimmy Kendall, from the 1950s.
Now below is a small pencil overlaid with pen and ink of balloon people. That is what I called this developmental stage when I was around elven. So as you can see it has taken me over 40 years to get where I can finally draw real people, and I am still learning. But my dad always encourage me never to give up. This is a small 9" X !!" -- roughly -- drawing on typing paper.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-the_drawing_the_Vampirelizamers_alt_2.JPG
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-JOAN_AS_LILITH_VER_ONE_2006.JPG
Now for those of you who are familiar with the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood --Dante Rossetti, Waterhouse, Madison, Mills...etc, you will recall that Rossetti -- who happens to be my favorite -- did a painting "Lady Lilith" --that had a very profound effect on me and has forever changed my life. He used several models in composing this painting, including, Sally Cornfirth, but he ended up using his wife, Elizabeth Siddel's face in the final product. I have decided to follow his experiment, so I am using Joan Leslie, as my "Lady Lilith." I use Joan in both graphic as well as written mediums. She is my mental image for Lilith in my series of six books, LILITH'S CHILD, that I am currently working on, and will get published as soon as I find an agent. This drawing is rendered in Pen and ink on a 16" X 20" Bristol board. here is a link to my Lilith site if you want to read samples from my book(s). lilith999.tribe.net (the site is called: LILITH IN IMAGE AND METAPHOR.)
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-DCP_0006.JPG
The above painting of Joan Leslie as a comteporary "Lady Lilith" is on a 16" X 24" cotton canvas. I rendered this painting in oils. I am trying to slowly evolve Joan Leslie into my image of Lililth.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-JONIS_LAST_X-MAS__1998.JPG
This is a digital painting of Joan Leslie based on the photo of her taken just before Christmas 1998. I call it "Joni's Last Smile." She passed away on April 21, 1999, after having been in a coma for ten days. She left me with a legacy of love and four children...all who are grown now and very talented in their respective fields. My youngest daughter(19), Stephanie, is the animal artist and my oldest son (29), Jason, is the computer graphics artist. I appreciate all of you taking the time to read my bios and look at and review my work. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I did doing all this interesting and diversified drawings. Let me know if you think I should continue drawing -- sometimes I feel I am not good enough to call myself an artist, but I do. I hope you will forgive me that vanity. Thanks. bk
This is a mechanical pencil rendering using both a 0.5mm and a 0.9mm HB lead. It is a portrait of my late wife, Joan Leslie. I drew it on a 9" X 11" Bristol board. Joan Leslie is more my muse now that she is no longer corporal but spirit. Elvis Presley sung a beautiful love ballad -- in one of his early 1950s movies -- it was titled: "Your So Young and Beautiful" which I offer these few lines from the song as a dedication to how I feel about Joan Leslie even though she is no longer with me in body, I still feel her sweet soul and love emanating from GOD.
You’re so young and beautiful, you’re everything I love
Your angel smile, your gentle touch
Are all I’m dreaming of
Oh take this heart I offer you
And never set me free
Then you’ll be forever young
And beautiful to me
I hope to hear from you all I have more portraits and drawings about 18 threads -- please feel free to check them out. Most of them well have Joan Leslie's name in the title of the thread as well as Lilith.
Thanks, bk
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-Joan_In_Her_Modeling_Days.jpg
This is a charcoal drawing I did of Joan from a photo my brother took -- he is a professional photographer for equestrian magazines. The drawing is on a 16" X 24" Grumbacher drawing pad.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-BILL_AND_A_DRAWING_OF_JOAN_VER_1_2006.jpg
As you can see I love to draw big. Here is another scribble style mechanical pencil portrait of Joan -- when she was seventeen (based on a photo I took of her when we were first dating) on a 16" X 24" Grumbacher drawing pad.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-a_drawing_of_babes_and_robots_and_superheros__ver_-15.jpg
I drew this portrait of Joan in 1974 when she and I were still teenagers (she was 17 and I was 19 and we had just gotten married) she used to love to poise for me. Joan was a very beautiful young lady who was taken from me when she was only 43. However, Joan Leslie will always be my muse. As you will see in more drawings in this thread. I did this with an HB pencil on vellum 9" X 11"
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-PROFILE_OF_ELVIS.jpg
Now I change to pen and ink drawing of Elvis here to show you a profile. I love doing profiles, because they are so delicate and you have to be dead on accurate of whom ever you are drawing, if you want your drawing to look like that person. Have you ever had the experience of trying to draw some one and they end up looking like some one else? Is this a subconscious act or do we just goof up some times? I bet I throw away five to six false starts evertime I start working on a portrtait. This is a small drawing 5" X7" on printing paper -- roughly 9" X 11."
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-A_DRAWING_OF_VINCENT_PRICE_BY_BILL_KENDALL.jpg
This is a drawing of Vincent Price I did in mechanical pencil ( 0.5mm and a 9.0mm) I was trying for photo realism. It is a large drawing another 16" X 24." It takes me about three days to do one of these, but I do tend to work on several drawings and several paintings during the day -- if I am not writing my ten pages per day quota on my book: LILITH'S CHILD. Try this link if you would like to see more of my work on Boris Karloff and Vincent Price: boriskarloffmonster41.tribe.net (This site is called: Boris karloff Lives.) Please let me know if you have trouble getting on these sites. Thanks bk
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-JIMMY_KENDALL_A_PORTRAIT_OF_MY_DAD.JPG
Here is a drawing I have rendered in mechanical pencil in a more impressionistic style of my dad -- who was my best friend. (My dad --although I was adopted by him into the Kendall family -- was very instrumental in me learning to read and write -- again -- after a hit-and-run driver nearly killed me (I sustained a very traumatic head injury which has left me deaf in my left ear and other learning problems, which I have tried to overcome) when I was seven. Dad also taught me how to draw when I was three, when caught me drawing in his huge dictionary -- you know, the ones that can crack coconuts open (I was drawing stick people then! This drawing is based on a photo of dad, Jimmy Kendall, from the 1950s.
Now below is a small pencil overlaid with pen and ink of balloon people. That is what I called this developmental stage when I was around elven. So as you can see it has taken me over 40 years to get where I can finally draw real people, and I am still learning. But my dad always encourage me never to give up. This is a small 9" X !!" -- roughly -- drawing on typing paper.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-the_drawing_the_Vampirelizamers_alt_2.JPG
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-JOAN_AS_LILITH_VER_ONE_2006.JPG
Now for those of you who are familiar with the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood --Dante Rossetti, Waterhouse, Madison, Mills...etc, you will recall that Rossetti -- who happens to be my favorite -- did a painting "Lady Lilith" --that had a very profound effect on me and has forever changed my life. He used several models in composing this painting, including, Sally Cornfirth, but he ended up using his wife, Elizabeth Siddel's face in the final product. I have decided to follow his experiment, so I am using Joan Leslie, as my "Lady Lilith." I use Joan in both graphic as well as written mediums. She is my mental image for Lilith in my series of six books, LILITH'S CHILD, that I am currently working on, and will get published as soon as I find an agent. This drawing is rendered in Pen and ink on a 16" X 20" Bristol board. here is a link to my Lilith site if you want to read samples from my book(s). lilith999.tribe.net (the site is called: LILITH IN IMAGE AND METAPHOR.)
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-DCP_0006.JPG
The above painting of Joan Leslie as a comteporary "Lady Lilith" is on a 16" X 24" cotton canvas. I rendered this painting in oils. I am trying to slowly evolve Joan Leslie into my image of Lililth.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/08-Feb-2007/98607-JONIS_LAST_X-MAS__1998.JPG
This is a digital painting of Joan Leslie based on the photo of her taken just before Christmas 1998. I call it "Joni's Last Smile." She passed away on April 21, 1999, after having been in a coma for ten days. She left me with a legacy of love and four children...all who are grown now and very talented in their respective fields. My youngest daughter(19), Stephanie, is the animal artist and my oldest son (29), Jason, is the computer graphics artist. I appreciate all of you taking the time to read my bios and look at and review my work. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I did doing all this interesting and diversified drawings. Let me know if you think I should continue drawing -- sometimes I feel I am not good enough to call myself an artist, but I do. I hope you will forgive me that vanity. Thanks. bk