Portrait in pencil

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Superb and dramatic drawing Gudrun. I do like your Leonardo quote and this certainly fits the bill.

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Thu 10 Feb 11:45:58

This has such a lot of feeling, Gudrun. Beautiful.

Posted by Ellen Mooney on Thu 10 Feb 12:02:49

Dramatic, I love it.

Posted by Denise Cat on Thu 10 Feb 12:18:03

Thank you all for your appreciation!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 10 Feb 12:57:36

Full of soul and emotion, one of your best I think Gudrun

Posted by Heather Love on Thu 10 Feb 12:57:53

Excellent Gudrun. If I did this I would have rendered it with lots of shading but it works very well without it. Less is more. Well done

Posted by xxStuart xxFairlamb on Thu 10 Feb 15:49:16

Thank you all for your encouragement!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 10 Feb 16:43:36

Such drama and emotion Gudrun.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Thu 10 Feb 17:18:55

Love the gestural movement.

Posted by Val-Irene Robertson on Thu 10 Feb 17:22:40

Superb

Posted by Romila Datta on Thu 10 Feb 18:31:36

Thank you for your kind comments. It is much appreciated.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 10 Feb 19:04:35

Highly emotive, super drawing.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Thu 10 Feb 19:12:03

Thank you Lewis.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Fri 11 Feb 07:05:01

Hang on Studio Wall

10/02/2022

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Archival, pencil on 20x20cm paper. Drawing with Josquin's Legacy cd by The Gesualdo Six was appropriate and inspiring.

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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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