A Minds Eye - Forensic Artist

Mary Brazas
at "A Mind's Eye"

Phone: (505) 252-8662
Pager: (505) 380-3369
Email: mary@amindseye.net

PO Box 45733
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
87124-5733

The Artist, Mary Brazas welcomes you to "A Minds Eye."

A Mind's Eye Services Include:

Composites
Facial Reconstruction Sculpture
Two Dimensional Identification Technique
Age Progression

A Mind's Eye - what your mind sees and your memory retains is amazingly clear and defined. One may think that the "pictures" that are stored in your memory are not easily accessible. Drawing, based on someone's memory and recollection, is what A Mind's Eye is about. By placing a witness or victim in a comfortable setting, I am able to assist the person in accessing those memories by putting them on paper. To achieve the most accurate results possible, feedback from the witness or victim is essential to the artist. Modifications are made, the eyes changed ever so slightly, the nose detailed to reflect an irregularity, features brought out in ways a computer-generated drawing cannot accomplish. To see such an astonishing likeness gives law enforcement the tangible and vital tools to aid in their pursuit and identification process. For a victim or witness, it can be the initial link in dealing with a tragedy, the first step to healing. Having studied under the prestigious and renowned forensic and composite artist Carrie Stuart Parks, I am able to bring forth the unique facial characteristics to an astonishing likeness based on the witness's input. As modifications are made, the end result can be shockingly accurate.

Further studies with the FBI's Forensic Artist, Kathy Johnson have enabled me to produce age progressed images and photo enhancements. Based on a photograph, age progression is accomplished by aging regions of the face to an approximate of the person.

Additional studies were completed for facial reconstruction sculpture and two-dimensional identification techniques under the direction of Betty Pat Gatliff and Karen Taylor respectively,
both acclaimed artists and teachers who set the national standards for facial reconstruction.

My overall training includes 304 formal training hours in forensic art, as well as continuous life long artistic studies and achievements. Being law-enforcement certified since 1990 also gives me the advantage of knowing investigative procedures and communications networking for interstate law enforcement offices. I also studied Forensic Facial Imaging at the FBI Academy where several of my instructors helped to establish what forensic art is today. I earned certificates of fullfillment and attendance for my acheivements at the Academy.

To view examples of my forensic artwork, please click Forensics. To view examples of my other artwork, please click Art. You may also use the menu at the top of the page to navigate.

This website was designed and developed by Genesis Webworks
Copyright 2001
Website Updated and Maintained by Joylynn Perea
All artwork by Mary Brazas.