MolyX Portraits @MCBA

I‘m not sure why I didn‘t post this ages ago. Maybe I thought the video was too shaky or something, but whatever. It's here now. You can see Robert‘s book in the top right of the case. Enjoy!

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Roberts Moly to go

I went today to the post to pick up Roberts Moly. It was a joy to open the package. I was already a little worried, but with the tracking number was not problem. I went to the office in Al Ain and not in Abu Dhabi. I didn't know that I could do that. they even brought me the package from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain. However I still don't understand what it didn't arrive to the office PObox. Probably the notification got lost.

So I worked a little the portrait, Since I was going to glue on the Moly I decided to cut out some pieces, to get another layer of information and to conect better to Ramires drawing. I complete the circle in black...reinforcing the effect that is the the transparent paper that provoques the change of color.

Robert's Book is on the way

 In 4 days it will be there. Today yet I'll inform the tracking number. Have a funny time working on it my friend Omar

Omar's moly

This is Robert's entry in Omar's moly :)

ok...now it's my turn...

its gonna take me awhile to plan :/

Robert's Book ready to go

Dear friends, I did a collage extracting a little piece of Dana's  work  and I did a exchange for a portrait part. Dana I hope you don't care about my invasion, I did it looking for integration between our works.
I think the better part of these exchanges is exactly this. The opportunity to make coletive experiments.
My "x ray" self portrait can be folded to play with the shadows.
I used pieces of Moleskine red label to harmonize with the red oxide I did used in the painting.
How I said wednesday morning I'll send it as a priority mail to Omar in the Arab Emirates because tomorrow is a Holyday in Brazil.

Robert's Book Just Arrived

Look what i found 30 min ago in my mail box :-)
I'll work now, but tomorrow is a holyday here in Brazil.
Wednesday morning I'll send it as a priority mail to Omar in the Arab Emirates.

Roberts Moly

So , I'm ready. I had worked in the last days with Roberts portrait. As I wrote before I wanted to try acrylics. I was inspired by the nice works from Ramires and Tim.
I started painting a middle tone background and from them working the dark and light areas. I struggled with the tecnic but I 'm quite happy with the result. I was really surprice! I guess I made many mistakes by working but I learned a lot with them to. The good thing about acrylic is that you can always paint over it.
I left the painting to rest for a few days and then I make some corrections I found appropiate. (I watched on a mirror and also compare the photo with the drawing backwards) I draw myself with a golden caligraphic marker and made some skratches with a cutter to get Roberts beard.

Robert's Moly finished and ready to fly!

Spent the last few nights working on Robert's moly (don't worry Heidi, I'll get back to yours soon!) and it's all finished and ready to go...but to who? (Tiffany, are you still in? I don't remember seeing anything from you on the blog.) If I don't hear from Tiffany I think I'll send this on to Suzette, I know she's been moly-less for a long time now.


I thought I'd try a different technique with this one and have always loved France Belleville's drawings. So, this is my Ode to France. I'm not really happy with Robert's portrait...I think I screwed up the proportions in the underlying drawing and was well into the crosshatching before I realized it. Mine came out a bit better but the sunglasses hide the toughest parts.

Fun fact: In the photos I worked from Robert is standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon and in mine I'm on a mountain opposite Breckenridge, CO.