Still sleeping
A selection of portraits.
In the last few years I’ve spent time studying life models, other works of art and sculpture to fine tune an appreciation of technique, tone and expression for portraiture. Not a game for the faint of heart.
Fortunately depicting a likeness is not really the objective of life drawing. These quick drawings often focus on the form and movement of the figure but occasionally the model has a certain presence where the face has its own strength or intensity worth capturing.
Head Study of ‘A Mermaid’
The Life of Mary – Mary in the Synagogue
The Life of Mary – the Handmaiden
Portrait of a young woman
Male head detail #1
Male head detail #2
Female head #2
Female head detail #3
Detail of study after Koller
Female head detail #4
Female head detail #5
The inheritance of our children
The Green Man (detail)
Head Study III – bringing out the features
Drop by Drawing 1 NGV Jan 2015 Sketch
Market sketch 2
Study of a young woman – head detail
Portrait of a musician as a young man
Caulfield to Flinders St, Girl wearing a scarf
Woman on the train
Sketch of John Wolseley at NGV Jan 2013
Detail from Maguerite and Faust by Ary Scheffer 1846, NGV Jan 2013
Drop by drawing participant at NGV January 2013
Kimono #2
Chas Spain 
What a great blog. I’ll need to visit again.
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Thanks so much Henry and so nice of you to visit the pages which are usually a quiet place – like the naves of a church where the real works of art are hung (perhaps…)
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Lovely work. Portraits are something I wish I could do better…
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Engaging and expressive.
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Thanks so much Elena for coming by
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