Sanchez is on a mission to create 100 Post-it portraits.
draws every day, building on his love of
comics.
“I love the funniness of comics and
Photos by Peter Korchnak
SANCHEZ’S GOAL IS
TO DISPLAY ALL 100
POST-IT PORTRAITS
AT A LOCAL
EXHIBITION SPACE.
Sanchez displays his first piece, a painting of Dog the Bounty Hunter and his late wife.
Sanchez quit teaching, “against every-
one’s advice,” to dedicate himself to
schools, and he continues to substitute
drawing, and then the pandemic hit. The
teach today.
timing allowed him the chance to figure
While teach-
out what was next.
ing English, his
“It was a creative explo-
only connection
‘IT WAS A CREATIVE sion,” he said. “I got to
improve my craft.”
to art was doo-
EXPLOSION.’
dling, which, he
‘You can tell a lot of
- Roy Sanchez, Post-it artist
admits, he never
stories’
took seriously.
“I wanted to
His first work was a
get out of the classroom to explore art-
watercolor painting of Dog the Bounty
making and do something I felt I was
Hunter and his late wife.
good at but never got a chance to explore
From that moment, Sanchez has
in depth,” he said. “I was trying to focus
explored a range of techniques and
on doing things for my mental health and media, from sidewalk chalk art to water-
color to pen or pencil drawing. He
just being creative.”
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the truthfulness,” Sanchez said. “You can
tell a lot of stories with that.”
Sanchez focuses on creating portraits
with regular school and office supplies to
avoid waste.
“The one thing that I do constantly
is draw people,” he said. “At airports,
restaurants — people like that stuff.”
A plan for the future
Sanchez’s goal is to display all 100
Post-it portraits at a local exhibition space.
“It would be interesting to see the pro-
gression of my drawing over the three
months doing this project,” Sanchez said.
“And the patterns in the portraits.”
More than 1,000 Post-its still remain in
his stash, ready to become works of art.
“I’m going to use them eventually,”
he said.
Go. Do.
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