Today I present a portrait of Moira Shearer, a Scottish dancer/actress from the 40s and 50s. I've been using the hot pressed paper and now I've got new paints which are described "easy to wash out". I'm familiar with the term "liftable" which means able to remove the paint by re-wetting the paint and blotting it out. I took the gamble and ordered the "easy to wash out" paint and it's "liftable".
So going back to the John Singer Sargent's charcoal drawings, he used an eraser to remove charcoal and I can simulate that with this new paint. I thought it was going well and just stopped before I ruined it. Also, one eye is painted with blue and the other in violet, it was an experiment to see what worked better. Paper: New York Central, 140 lbs, hot pressed, 11 x 15"
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