Wednesday's effort is based on a painting by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson's 'Portrait of Jacques-Joseph de Cathelineau' dated 1822.
I chose this piece to work from mainly to see if I could draw the eyes so a sense of roundness to the eyeball comes through, since the glance of the subject is to his upper right and the face is at the 3/4 position. I'm satisfied with them knowing that with more practice -- drawing this particular glance and position will only improve. The drawing was done with mechanical pencil (HB lead) and a Signo White Pen was used for the pupil highlights. The face is actually shorter in length than the one in the painting. But as I said, I was more interested in the eye work on this one.
What I particularly enjoyed was coloring in the garment with my Japanese watercolors. I loved the ensemble the subject was painted in, and the color choices I made work well.
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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