Ink drawing of this week's Gerald Leslie Brockhurst #PortraitChallenge for StudioTeaBreak over on X/Twitter. I love this portrait, Dorette has such an enigmatic gaze and her hair makes a terrific shape. If you have an X account, check out lots of other people's studies of the same portrait, that hangs in the Watt Institution in Greenock, Scotland ( Read more... )

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A page from my sketchbook:


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I only spent a few minutes today drawing this, for @StudioTeaBreak's Portrait Challenge, but I like it better than some recent pictures I've laboured much longer over. You can see the original painting by Jean-Étienne Liotard here.


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Here's my morning sketch (pencil and watercolour) of Selika Lazevski, based on a photo taken in 1891 at the studio of Paul Nadar in Paris. I found it via this Paris review article by Susanna Forrest, where you can see the original photo. She's so striking!


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