Rain's Thursday Art Date: a portrait

It's Thursday and that means we're meeting at Rain's for her Thursday Art Date.  This week, the theme is A Portrait.  This is probably NOT what everyone expected when they saw this theme, but I don't draw or sketch (and have no desire to, either).

Back in 2009, I created a series of portrait ATCs.  Here is one of them.  I called this one My eyes.

Another ATC in the series, this one is called Flower Man.

I created this when I reviewed a book for a year long challenge in which I participated.

Another in my portrait series, I call this one Bird Man.

Also from May, 2009, I called this one Colorful because he was so pale.

I called this ATC Hidden Assets because I thought the man had a shifty look in his eye.

Also in my portrait series, I called this one Bugged because of the German Scrap bug gifted me by my art friend Cindy sitting on a leaf I pressed the previous autumn.

I called this portrait Wild Thing because of his hair.

I thought my NEW scanner was on its last legs, but this is disgusting.  The  dimensionality of the game pieces were apparently too much for that old scanner.  It's obvious I named this portrait The Numbers Guy.

I'd say it's obvious this portrait is called Patriot although I'm not sure why I named it that, other than he looks like he came from the 1700s.

I had to laugh when I saw I had named this one Wired because of the wire coil I used to replace his right eyebrow.

From the 18th to the 21st century, I named this one Flamboyant.

I'm surprised how many ATCs I've made over the years that involve portraits.  The travel log was created years ago for a swap. There are four pages inside.

My friend Kathy drew this for Bleubeard back in 2009.  I had to include this portrait, although my only contribution was the photo or scan I created to document Bleubeard's beauty.

Another ATC I created using a little girl and her portrait.  It appears I named it Inspiration.

There are quite a few portraits in this entry.  In fact, it is for the letter P in an alpha challenge.  Both the postman and the portraits were designated for that letter.  The postman is a tape transfer.

Another page in the Alpha Dictionary challenge was Unforgettable, a photo of these women's portraits.

And finally:

the only faces I've ever drawn.  This was in reference to my support for the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo located in Paris, after it sustained a brutal shooting that killed staff and police guarding the paper in 2015.

 

I realize I can't draw, but I thought these images looked funky enough to represent the magazine.  And because my altered book is slightly larger than my scanner, here are the words I wrote:

My name is Charlie.

I stand for freedom.

They tried to kill me.

Instead, it made me stronger.

Now my voice is heard around the world.

The font I chose is called Shotgun, which I thought was appropriate.

 

As much as I would love to continue, I believe I have enough portraits this week.  Bleubeard doesn't care if I stop now or not, because he's just thrilled he's been included in this post.

Thank you beyond belief for visiting today.  I am truly grateful to you, my friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join me at Rain's Thursday Art Date.  She would love to have you join her, too.