Portrait in watercolour with a touch of ink
Archival as always. 31x41cm 300gsm HP paper, watercolour and ink. My contribution to the Portrait Artist of the Week with Samira Ahmed and Geoffrey Harrison. Kate Bryan has posted a very interesting video on the Portrait Artist of the Year facebook to which this is my response. It is also a response to the general question of "What is a portrait?"
About the Artist
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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