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helen0792
Jul 12, 20241 min read
Beauty at the Musee d'Orsay
The Musee d'Orsay has some many wonderful pieces of art including the building itself. My favorite floor is the 5th floor where so many...
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helen0792
Jun 22, 20241 min read
Tour de France 2024 and Sunflowers are everywhere!!!
I love watching the Tour De France (29 June!) and part of what I love is seeing all the beautiful scenery in France. And lots and lots...
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helen0792
Jun 13, 20241 min read
Rihanna's Face Card Never Declines
Clover loves to sit on my lap while I am drawing. Here she is checking out my progress on my portrait of Rhianna
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helen0792
Jun 11, 20241 min read
Van Gogh's Yellow House
This painting by Van Gogh is the reason I always wanted to live in a yellow house. I saw this painting when I was 12 and I just loved it...
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helen0792
Jun 10, 20240 min read
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helen0792
Jun 7, 20241 min read
A Gift to All who Observe it
This photos is from the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, the leading department store in France for 130 years. I love the stain glass and...
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helen0792
May 26, 20241 min read
Celebrating Miles Davis
Today is May 26th, Miles Davis's birthday, so I created this video about my portrait of him which I created from the black and white...
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helen0792
May 17, 20241 min read
A purple by any other name...
In my creation of my portrait of Taylor Swift, I used 5 different color groups, 3 of them were different variations of purple. The first...
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helen0792
May 7, 20241 min read
The Universe in Her Eyes
These are the eyes I drew for my portrait of Aretha Franklin. I chose these colors because they remind me of the colors in the photos of...
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helen0792
May 2, 20241 min read
Unequal Scales of Justice
I worked on this after I completed Taylor Swift's portrait and I ended up using a similar color scheme. (Other than yellow for the hair,...
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helen0792
May 1, 20241 min read
The Eyes have it
I always start a portrait with the eyes. I do a sketch with pencil of the entire face, but then when I start with pastels, I always...
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helen0792
Apr 15, 20241 min read
Elephants and NY Giants
I created a door decoration for one of my children's homeroom teacher in honor of teacher appreciation week. The teacher loves elephants...
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helen0792
Dec 20, 20231 min read
Taylor in Motion: Progression of a Portrait by Helen Lesnick
This is a progression of my portrait of Taylor Swift. Every day I take a photo of the portrait in more or less the same position in the...
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helen0792
Nov 2, 20232 min read
It's A Taylor Swift World And We Are Just Living In It
First of all, I just want to say I don't think I can call myself a "Swiftie" because nothing I do anymore can me describe in any way as...
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