WILLIAM SNYDER III
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charcoal portraits

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The portraits are the bi-product of the art experience.  The real work is sitting with the individual... talking... being in a moment with someone... seeing them.

​It is ever more important to be with people in this age of constant social media.  We connect yet are disconnected.  Doing these portraits forces interaction.  Capturing the essence of a person, the twinkle in their eye...their 'spirit'...that is what I look to draw.  Not simply to recreate shape, tone, highlight and shadow...but to really "see" this person and convey who I feel they are.  So that you get the sense of the person even in their portrait.  

Life-drawn
portraits

These images are done during
a 40 - 45 minute sitting.

MATERIALS:
- Charcoal powder
- Compressed charcoal
- Charcoal pencils (2B, 4B, 6B)
- White eraser

T I M E L A P S E videos

Portrait Series

2007
"I push the drawings until I feel the same life on the image as I feel from the individual."  
- William Snyder III
In 2007, William received a Creative Fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts. With the funds he produced this series of portraits of friends, strangers and colleagues. 

These charcoal portraits, each 24 x 36, were drawn from life during a 45 min - 1 hr session.  
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Don Smitley 2001. Charcoal on paper. 30"x60"
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Dean David Monk, Penn State College of Education. 2010. Charcoal on paper. 20"x36"

early self portraits

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Self Portrait 1998. Charcoal and gauche on paper. 24" x 84"
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Catch/Release, 2004, Charcoal on paper
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untitled, 1998, ink on paper

Reach out to the artist.  info@williamsnyderiii.com

ADDRESS

141 S MAIN ST
BROADWAY, VA 22815

Telephone

814  880 - 9933
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  • Home
  • Murals
    • Town of Broadway (2022)
    • Canyon (2021)
    • Kish Why (2021)
    • We Are All One (2020)
    • Pugh Garage (2019)
    • Wild Geese (2018)
    • Bedford Fair (2018)
  • Projects
    • 10,000 Smiles (2020)
    • New Day Roosters (2017)
    • Save144 (2016)
    • Vespa Series (2014-2016)
    • 800,000 (2006)
  • Portfolio
    • design
    • Illustration
    • Portraits
    • Paintings
    • Scenic Work
    • Sculpture
  • Poetry
  • ABOUT