Portrait in oil pastel by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley

GSSharpley_140725oilpHatter32 5x50cm
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i like it very much. A great understanding of form, light, and shadow. I wish I could do that too.

I like how you use colour in your figure drawings

Super work Gudrun.

I like the more detailed head and arms, it makes this figure .

Thank you for your appreciation! I like my oil pastels. Such wonderful pigments, hard to direct!

An excellent life drawing, Gudrun

I like it very much - the form is very good, and I love the way you've used bright colours to enhance the figure.

Beautiful sketch!

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14/07/2025
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Portrait in oil pastel. Archival 32.5x50cm. I was not quite sure how this would work out as I am still feeling my way around my deluxe oil pastels. The more I look at it the more I like it.

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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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