Stevens, Dave - 1979 Charcoal & Watercolour Portrait

Artist: Dave Stevens (All)

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Stevens, Dave - 1979 Charcoal & Watercolour Portrait Comic Art

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Title:	Stevens, Dave - 1979 Charcoal & Watercolour Portrait
Artist:	Dave Stevens (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	3,795
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	8
Added to Site:	1/20/2009
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Description

An absolutely stunning and EARLY Dave Stevens portrait of a beautiful young woman's face. At San Diego every year, there were a bunch of his friends, including myself, who would always torture Dave by bringing him printed examples of his early pre-professional work that had made its way into print. Depending upon his mood, Dave would say, "I wish you hadn't come up with THAT!" or "But I was in high school when I drew that! or "I was at summer camp and drew that on my bunk bed..." or he'd refuse to sign the printed example and say, "I'm not going to sign THAT!" However, here is a lovely piece drawn by Dave 'way back in 1979 -- three years before the advent of THE ROCKETEER -- when he was 24 that NO ONE could ever be ashamed of.
All too often we say, "the scan does no justice to the actual art." Well, believe me, the scan just could not capture the subtlties of the watercolour shading and the sense of the charcoal on the textured paper.
I bought this piece at auction on eBay and then had one of those adventures that is harrowing while going through it, but fun to look back on. This Stevens piece and a shipment of other art got mixed up by the shipper, and this lovely mixed media Stevens portrait (charcoal and watercolour) made its way to Belgium, while the Belgian's purchased art made its way to me in Canada. Then everything had to be shipped back to the seller and reshipped to its proper destination. Remember the Carly Simon song, "Anticipation"? Bought on November 26, 2008 and received on January 20, 2009!

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	Ray Cuthbert
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Last Login:	September 2025
Country:	CANADA
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Chris C
Member Since 2004

Posted on 1/20/2009

Really gorgeous, and a nice story to go along with it. Congrats, I could stare at this all day.

Ken Z
Member Since 2006

Posted on 1/20/2009

Hey, Don't they make movies out of things like that happening! Another Beautiful Piece Ray! Big Congrats!

Anthony F
Member Since 2004

Posted on 1/20/2009

Worth the wait, I'd say! Those eyes are piercing!

Felix Lu
Member Since 2005

Posted on 1/20/2009

Just gorgeous!

F M
Member Since 2005

Posted on 1/21/2009

Glad it made it back to you safely from my home (I did offer the seller to ship it directly to you to speed things up but...) ;) I really appreciated looking at it though,hope you liked my pieces as well ;)

Joel Thingvall GALLERY OF WONDER WOMAN ART
Member Since 2005

Posted on 1/21/2009

Truly unbelievable piece. You got it at a great price. And can now say it is a "world travelled" piece of art.

Alex Johnson
Member Since 2006
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Posted on 9/29/2010

Ray, That's a simply lovely piece. Thanks for calling it to my attention.

Mark Howland
Member Since 2004

Posted on 11/30/2010

What do I know (and I mean that), but to me this is far more attractive than many of the risque pieces. The unfinished nature of it certainly adds to its allure.

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