Thursday's effort was based on Ghirlandaio's 'Bust-Length Woman Wearing a Coif' dated 1489-90. Ghirlandaio did his drawing with black chalk on cream-colored paper. I've done mine in black Muji pen on sketchbook paper.
What I've said before is that once you've committed a stroke in pen...it's there and not going anywhere. In this piece, there is depth/form in the face. However, the areas of her head and the coif are much more unclear. Those marks are quite busy and there are a range of different ones that don't blend well to create continuity with the face portion. The head and coif are also in values that are too dark and light.
This is a face in 3/4 orientation, and that in itself was a valuable study to do.
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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