Each portrait is hand-stitched with cotton thread, in larger-than-life dimensions, on stretched canvas.
To purchase or commission work, please contact me by phone or email at
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Faces of David is a series of hand-stitched portraits using data from Stanford University’s
Digital Michelangelo Project. Stanford's software allows me to effectively fly around the statue and adjust the lighting to create an image to my specifications.
At right, from top to bottom:
David in Periwinkle, 2010
David in Fern Green, 2010
David in Peacock Blue, 2010
David in Terra Cotta, 2010
Each canvas measures 16 x 16 inches
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Becky Lou
2009, 20 x 16 inches
Hand-stitched cotton thread on canvas
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Study-in-thread of a 1630 Rembrandt Self-portrait Etching
2009, 16 x 16 inches
Hand-stitched cotton thread on canvas
This work has been selected for the CraftTexas 2010 exhibit at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
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Rembrandt's original etching is approximately 2 x 1.6 inches.
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Jubilee, 2007, 16 x 20 inches
Hand-stitched cotton thread on canvas
Not for sale
This portrait was in "Lovers" - curated by Lanie McCormick for the Austin Figurative Gallery in 2008.
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Self-portrait, 2007, 20 x 16, Hand-stitched cotton thread on canvas
Not for sale
This portrait (my first of this type) was done for an open-invitation self-portrait show at the Austin Figurative Gallery.
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