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Portrait of Michael Crawford by Isaac Abbay
Have your portrait drawn in downtown vancouver.
Michael David Crawford
September 24, 2006
Copyright © 2006 Michael David Crawford. All Rights Reserved.
Isaac in The Zone
Email Isaac at yemane_94@hotmail.com He can meet you in downtown Vancouver to draw your portrait.
"Isaac! I was hoping I'd see you again." He had just sat down next to me at the Robson and Burrard Blenz Coffee where we met my first night in vancouver.
"Oh, hi Mike. How are you doing?"
"I was hoping I'd run into you again. I'd like to buy you some acid free drawing paper, and sit for a longer portrait." Isaac is a street artist. When we met, he drew me in profile, but on newsprint, which yellows with age. "How much would you charge to draw me for an hour?"
"An hour? I don't know. Ten bucks?"
"I'll pay you twenty." My wife Bonita is an art student. I understand very well how hard it can be for artists to try to make it by selling their work.
I wrote down my name and email address to give to Isaac. "Is there an art supply store around anywhere?"
"Go to the Loomis Art Store on Main."
"Oh, yeah, I know Loomis. My wife buys all her art supplies at the Loomis in Halifax." I hoped I'd be able to find it. I'm still new in town and don't know my way around anywhere except downtown.
"I gotta go find someone to draw" he said, getting up and going outside. He approached someone sitting at a table, then sat down to draw them.
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