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Monday's effort was my take on Giacomo Ceruti's 'Portrait of a Country Woman' dated 1730. 

The drawing was done with mechanical pencil (HB lead) with pupil highlights done in Signo White Pen.  The background, hair and garment have been painted with Japanese watercolor.  The scarf, done in pencil, has a bit of colored pencil added from Caran d'Ache Supracolor IIs (gray and light blue).

In this drawing, the head ended up being cropped like an earlier one but this time because the face outline was done too high on the page for the full hairstyle.  What I'm happiest with is the ear (shape and shading).


  

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