Portrait of a travelling dancer

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Very arresting, those colours are great

Thank you!! Glad you like it. I am intending to do a larger portrait tomorrow. Let's see if it happens.

She is lovely Gudrun.

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21/02/2024
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Another day, another watercolour, wet-in-wet with no pre-drawing. Many know that I have always been a fan of free-drawing as it generates an internal movement a work, something I particularly use in my monoprints and monotypes. This is archival as always, 23x31cm.

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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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