Maggie Toole, Circulism, colored pencil portraiture
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Maggie Toole
Circulism
Using colored pencils, I draw no lines at all…only varied, overlapped and intertwined circles. Building seemingly transparent layers, incorporating all color.
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As in pointillism, the distant viewer’s eye fuses these into realistic shades of human flesh, hair and life.
Maggie Toole
Jan 9, 2012