Portrait in pencil
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Well, here is another little mediation on archival A5 paper with pencil. The light was marginally better for photographing. I just love how versatile pencil is. I really enjoy generating movement in my work. This is a seated dancer. I am still tinkering with my other oil projects and there is a print one loitering. I like to keep my brain fired up. I just have to remain organised.
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Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley
"The good painter has to paint two principal things, that is to say, man and the intention of his mind. The first is easy and the second difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gestures and movements of the limbs." (MK388) From: Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work, p16, J…
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