Portrait of Steven Shafer

Portrait of Steven, 24” x 19.5 ,” Acrylic Paint Pen and Acrylic Wash on Paper, by Melissa Carmon

Recent Portrait Work

"The quietness of thoughts, books, histories

a mind that treads those Roman Roads

and finds the Way in the Wilderness

a heart that is measured and sure

when it finds the thing worth seeking

weighs grain from those fields of theories,

and knows that opalescent gleam

that pearl of great price,

when it's shining in his eyes." 

This piece was a portrait that I created as part of a series exploring the lives of historical saints. However, the aesthetic in this series wasn’t quite right. I did really like how these portraits turned out though and they became their own artistic exploration.