Donald Sutherland

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I like the way you've done this Pete, particularly with the muted colours.

Hang on Studio Wall
10/05/2020
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Sketch of Donald Sutherland. Graphite (and pastel) on Bristol board paper. One of my favourite actors gets the honours today. Still finding my way with drawing people. I decided to frame the face with pastel as his hair is white and doesn't stand out on the bright white paper. This Bristol board paper is really nice to work on. The only problem with it is it doesn't have any tooth, so soon becomes saturated with graphite.

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Pete Batho

Hi. My name's Pete. I'm a self-taught artist living and working in Cornwall UK. Originally from Staffordshire, I moved to Cornwall in 1997 with my job as a Telecoms Engineer. Now retired, I took up painting again after a long period of inactivity. I first laid brush to paper in the 70’s when I…

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