Today's effort was based Karl Joseph Stieler's "Portrait of Therese Alexandra Freifrau von Tettenborn" dated 1815.
The tools used include mechanical pencil (HB core) for the sketch work; Japanese watercolors for the background, garment and cap; Stabilo PointMax colored pens for the cap band, and white Signo pen for the pupil highlights.
The eyes are a bit off in terms of angle compared with the painting, but they still look ok. The headband is also a bit off at the ends. Aside from those two things, I didn't decorate the cap which is actually more of a scarf wrap in the painting nor were the folds in the garment added even though there is a hint of them.
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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