From illustrations for magazine articles in the 1980s to large sized portraits, MerryJoy has worked with graphite since the beginning of her career as an artist. For her award-winning 2004 nonfiction book, The Corpse on Boomerang Road, she created many of the portraits in graphite, using scratched and blurred printouts from old microfilmed newspaper photos as her models. A sample of the portrait of H. M. Hogg is at the left, the microfilm printout picture on the left, and the finished portrait on the right. A small sampling of her graphite work is showcased here.

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TAQAU'N'WI OF THE NORTHERN ARAPAHO by MerryJoy © 1981 (16x22 inches).

TAQAU'N'WI — detail.

EXCHANGING TALES AT THE RENDEZVOUS by MerryJoy © 1981 (16x22 inches).

EXCHANGING TALES — detail.

ONE FOR THE LADY by MerryJoy © 1981 (16x22 inches).

WAITING FOR A GENT by MerryJoy © 1981 (16x22 inches).

Magazine illustration by MerryJoy © 1981

Magazine illustration by MerryJoy © 1981

Magazine illustration by MerryJoy © 1981

Magazine illustration by MerryJoy © 1981

Magazine illustration by MerryJoy © 1981

TIMELESS by MerryJoy, age 16.

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