The daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1961-current, December 23, 2021, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextThe journey to 100 portraits Photos by Peter Korchnak Former Astoria English teacher and coach Roy Sanchez is experimenting with art on a nontraditional canvas. BELOW LEFT: Sanchez draws portraits of people he knows. BELOW RIGHT: Sanchez enjoys the challenge of creating portraits on the limited space Post-its provide. BY PETER KORCHNAK Artist Roy Sanchez wants no Post-it to go to waste. Since September, he has been drawing portraits on the little 3 by 3-inch squares with a flair pen, aiming to complete 100 by year’s end. His models are people he knows per- sonally, friends or followers on social media, and even people from online stock photos. See Roy Sanchez’s art Instagram: @roysanchezart RoySanchez.art traditional art. “It’s a creative constraint, if you limit yourself to 3 by 3 inches, you’re going to learn how to do things, like composi- tion,” he said. “You really have to work hard to figure out how to make it work.” ‘A creative explosion’ “About a quarter are actually animals because people started asking me to draw their pets,” Sanchez said. Why make art on Post-its? “Somehow I inherited stacks of these,” Sanchez said. “There’s so much waste with art supplies and office sup- plies, I wanted to see what I can do with them.” Sanchez added that Post-its are easy to carry around, and push the boundaries of 6 // COASTWEEKEND.COM The learning curve is just another in a series for Sanchez. He is the new pro- gram director of the Miss Bea Johnson Fund, an Astoria Visual Arts program that partners with Astoria and Knappa high schools to help teens create art. The role is an extension of Sanchez’s pre- vious career as an English teacher and coach at the Astoria high and middle See Page 7