This huge life-like pencil drawing took the artist 1,200 hours and more than 100 pencils to create.
Chris LaPorte from Michigan created the 13×26 foot masterpiece for the ArtPrize 2012, an international art fair at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Mr LaPorte used an 80-year-old photo of his grandfather and his high school marching band to create a life-like version of the blurry photo called City Band.
I’ve pursued drawing as a vocation my whole adult life. II’ve received art degrees from Aquinas College, La Coste Ecole de Beaux Arts, and the New York Academy of Art. I have taught drawing at GVSU, GRCC, Kendall College of Art and Design, and Aquinas College as well as educational institutions in New York and Michigan.
My caricature and portrait business has financially supported my education, travel, and my fine arts studio. II’ve drawn close to 85,000 people over the last 18 years of drawing.
I’ve participated in many art exhibitions in Michigan and New York City.
He said: The inspiration is a photograph I found in my mother’s basement.
‘It’s of my grandfather and his high school marching band.
‘It’s an 80-year-old thing, damaged and blurry like it’s not there, very much like the limitations of my own personal memory of him.’
The artist, who works as a caricature sketcher during the day, said: ‘I have drawn 100,000 people in my life.
Life-like: It took Mr LaPorte 1,200 hours to create his work entitled City Band
From blurry beginnings: Mr LaPorte used an 80-year-old photo of his grandfather and his high school marching band which damaged and blurry to create his masterpiece
Limited memory: The artist said: ‘It’s an 80-year-old thing, damaged and blurry like it’s not there, very much like the limitations of my own personal memory of him’
‘We take so many cues of the environment around us from how other people are reacting on their face.
‘What it communicates is enormous.’
Mr LaPorte said on his website: ‘Drawing is always cool no matter what your age or background.
‘My caricature and portrait business has financially supported my education, travel, and my fine arts studio.’
City Band came tenth in the ArtPrize competition earlier this month. He won the prize in 2010 for another gigantic sketch.
There were 16 winning artists who received $560,000 in prize money from the initial 1,517 entrants from 56 countries in the competition launched by Rick DeVos, from Amway Corp in 2009.
via daily mail
http://chrislaporte.com/artwork/
Chris LaPorte from Michigan created the 13×26 foot masterpiece for the ArtPrize 2012, an international art fair at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Mr LaPorte used an 80-year-old photo of his grandfather and his high school marching band to create a life-like version of the blurry photo called City Band.
About Chris LaPorte
I love to draw.
Drawing is always cool—no matter what your age or background.I’ve pursued drawing as a vocation my whole adult life. II’ve received art degrees from Aquinas College, La Coste Ecole de Beaux Arts, and the New York Academy of Art. I have taught drawing at GVSU, GRCC, Kendall College of Art and Design, and Aquinas College as well as educational institutions in New York and Michigan.
My caricature and portrait business has financially supported my education, travel, and my fine arts studio. II’ve drawn close to 85,000 people over the last 18 years of drawing.
I’ve participated in many art exhibitions in Michigan and New York City.
He said: The inspiration is a photograph I found in my mother’s basement.
‘It’s of my grandfather and his high school marching band.
‘It’s an 80-year-old thing, damaged and blurry like it’s not there, very much like the limitations of my own personal memory of him.’
The artist, who works as a caricature sketcher during the day, said: ‘I have drawn 100,000 people in my life.
Life-like: It took Mr LaPorte 1,200 hours to create his work entitled City Band
From blurry beginnings: Mr LaPorte used an 80-year-old photo of his grandfather and his high school marching band which damaged and blurry to create his masterpiece
Limited memory: The artist said: ‘It’s an 80-year-old thing, damaged and blurry like it’s not there, very much like the limitations of my own personal memory of him’
‘We take so many cues of the environment around us from how other people are reacting on their face.
‘What it communicates is enormous.’
Mr LaPorte said on his website: ‘Drawing is always cool no matter what your age or background.
‘My caricature and portrait business has financially supported my education, travel, and my fine arts studio.’
City Band came tenth in the ArtPrize competition earlier this month. He won the prize in 2010 for another gigantic sketch.
There were 16 winning artists who received $560,000 in prize money from the initial 1,517 entrants from 56 countries in the competition launched by Rick DeVos, from Amway Corp in 2009.
via daily mail
http://chrislaporte.com/artwork/
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