This is today's sketch practice based on Sandro Botticelli's 'Portrait of a Young Woman' dated 1480-1485. It was drawn with a mechanical pencil. The hair is the most challenging because of how decorative it is in the painting and the depth it has. Overall, I'm satisfied with the effort. Wonder what it would have looked like had I done the sketch with pen. Maybe I'll try that too down-the-road.
My profile photo was highjacked ! For those of you who are blogging, be wary. There are some unscrupulous folks out there who may be using or about to use a photo(s) you've uploaded to an online photo-hosting site. At the time I created a blog, having a URL for a photo uploaded online was the only way to insert a photo in your profile or to create a custom header. There had been no problems for a long while. This morning, however, I did a Google image search for my name and found my photo linked to a totally different blog than my own! It is possible I didn't mark my file with the online photo-hosting site as private, but I didn't expect this to happen. I don't know whether marking it private would have actually averted the situation, but I'm not waiting to find out. I eliminated my membership to that online photo-hosting service today and caution anyone to be careful with uploading images to the internet . If you read the terms of agreement at many sites, you'...
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