Here's my riff on today's StudioTeaBreak #PortraitChallenge, Australian artist Hilda Rix Nicholas's 1917 self portrait. (See her original version here.)


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Here's the latest #PortraitChallenge over at @StudioTeaBreak on Twitter. Here's the original photo, on Wikipedia, but an unknown photographer. Maud Wagner was a circus performer and the first known woman tattoo artist in America.


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If you're in Scotland, look out for a copy of today's Herald, I have an article in it! You can also read it online here:


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Thursday's #PortraitChallenge was Thomas Gainsborough's famous portrait of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (which I've seen on a visit to Chatsworth House). Mine's a Pegasus-wrangling cowgirl because why not. :) You can find out more about portraits and #PortraitChallenge here on my earlier blog post.


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Today's Portrait Challenge drawing for @StudioTeaBreak, based on a photo tweeted by @castledublin.


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Here's my latest #ShapeChallenge drawing. ( See more here; a lot of Daleks today!)


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Here's another portrait drawing, this time of photographer Sarah Reeve. (Sarah took some ace photo portraits of Philip and me a couple weekends ago in our space suits and I thought I'd do one of her in return.)

I didn't used to work much in pencil, I always thought my work looked better in ink. But David O'Connell and I drew all of our Jampires ( Read more... )