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Hockney portrait in progress!

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Let the Music Play (Shannon) - Colored Pencils on Watercolor Paper - 4" by 6"

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Continuing to chronicle my 20 years of making art... I've been interested in surfing since the Hardy Boys Mysteries episode where they go to Hawaii! Growing up as a kid in Columbus, that beach lifestyle held enormous mystique for me. Later on, Kem Nunn's Tapping the Source became my favorite book -- and North Shore (1987) my favorite film. And my first novel is set in the Great Lakes surfing scene!

I started by drawing surfers in oil pastel - and that led to painting, and one of the largest galleries on my site: https://christopher-stanton.com/section/7303-Surfers.html

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Surfer No. 9 - Oil Pastel and Pen - 8 1/2" by 11"

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Shirley Chisholm - Colored Pencils on Paper - 5" by 7"

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Student Heroes: Kendrick Castillo - Colored Pencils - 9" by 12". I'd love it if you did a Google search for this hero.

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Continuing to chronicle my 20 years of making art... I've done dozens of collaborations by mail with other artists! I've had so much fun with these - and they've given me so much creative motivation to keep going. (Pictured: "Hi Jake" with Scott Michael Ackerman.)

Tons more collaborations here: https://christopher-stanton.com/section/23531-Collaborations.html

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Venice House No. 1 - Acrylic on canvas panel - 11" by 14"

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La Ballona Creek - Acrylic and Pencil on Canvas - 9" by 12"

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Ocean - February 17 -- Water Soluble Crayon on Paper -- 9" by 12"

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Continuing to chronicle my 20 years of making art... I started with colored pencil portraits and I'm still going strong with them! Here's a huge gallery of portraits from 2007 on: https://christopher-stanton.com/section/7304-Portraits.html

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Continuing to chronicle my 20 years of making art... As I experimented with oil pastels and acrylic paint, I also tried collages and various experiments. Here's a series I created in 2007: https://christopher-stanton.com/section/469122-Men%20of%201977.html

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Bourgeois Uncertainty No. 2 - Acrylic on Canvas - 8" by 10"

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Bourgeois Uncertainty No. 3 - Acrylic on Canvas - 8" by 10"

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Bourgeois Uncertainty No. 4 - Acrylic on Canvas - 8" by 10"

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Plumtastic No. 2 - Acrylic on Canvas Panel - 5" by 7"

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Continuing to recap my Twenty Year Art Journey, around 2006 I took the leap into creating abstract pieces, first with water soluble crayons and oil pastels. Here's an album! (check the image source)

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