Long doesn’t want her drawings to look like photographs, but when people tell her they look better than photographs, she considers it a compliment. “Then I feel I’ve gone beyond the reference material,” she says. “I feel I was able to go into the subject and elicit the mood I was trying to capture.”

Karmel Timmons
Partners
Pencil
23″ By 16″

Brenda Murphy
One Of The Big Boys
Pencil
13″ By 19″

Mary Buchholz
First Chill
Pencil
24″ By 18″