Remember this? A crayon portrait
Posted Oct 28, 2018 01:00:00 PM.
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This crayon portrait is of James Cook (1800-1880) from the former Waterloo Township.
Crayon portraits were popular from the 1860s to the early 1900s.
They were an an inexpensive alternative to a painted portrait.
The artist would enlarge a photograph onto drawing paper using a weak emulsion, which produced a faint image.
The artist would then draw over the photograph with charcoal or pastels, copying the photograph while making it look hand drawn.
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