Portraits of the Home in Pen & Ink
Here's a selection of some of the pen and ink portraits I've done in recent years. Many of them are in Chicago/the Chicagoland area.
What I love is looking back on the homes and remembering some of the personal or specific building details requested: a cat in the window, a potted plant, a brick detail. For many, it would be the portrait a home that they were leaving behind, so the details that made the home *theirs* became especially important, but bittersweet.
I'll get around to updating this with other home/building portraits in my collection periodically.
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![chicago bungalow with awning](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0902/2046/files/Bungalow_web700px_1024x1024.jpg?v=1583481654)
![logan square home](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0902/2046/files/a-frame_-_two-flat_-_logan_square_-_chicago_1024x1024.jpg?v=1583481657)
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![beverly tudor](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0902/2046/files/Fran-Doherty_tudor_Beverly-2000px_1024x1024.jpg?v=1583481750)
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![italianate two flat](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0902/2046/files/Kim_S_home-portrait_2000px_1024x1024.jpg?v=1583481951)
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