Head Study #175

John Singer Sargent, Mrs Hardt, 1904.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, cold press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

Head Study #174

Phillip De Laszlo Comtesse Georges de Castellane, nee Florinda Fernandez Anchorena, 1930

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, cold press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

Head Study #173

John Singer Sargent Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (1866-1937) in 1893

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, cold press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #172

Mrs Mary Shreve (Ames) Frothingham (1867-1955), in 1924

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, cold press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #171

Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), in 1960

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, cold press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #170

Tonight I present a picture from an old photograph of Minnie Ashley, 1897.  Later, she married William Astor Chanler, who punched out William Randolph Hurst to win her heart.  John Singer Sargent painted a portrait of one of her in-laws, Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler, in 1893.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, cold press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

Head Study #169

This is another paint that I need to work on.  It's another John Singer Sargent, but it's not working for me.  It is the opposite of the way I usually work, where it is "subtractive" where the light is subtracted from the total.  This paint is "additive", where light is added to the total.  Again, I think I need to find the maximum full strength, and then dilute it further.

Paper: Paper: Stonehenge Black Aqua, 140 lb, hot press, 11 x 15"

Paint: Pearl Ex, Interference Gold, Homemade

 

Head Study #168

Today I present a picture of Margot Fonteyn, a ballerina from the 1950s.  The paint is a color shifting type that is red from one angle and blue from another.  I have some issues that I need to work out with this paint.  Perhaps I'm using it at too full strength.

Paper: Stonehenge Black Aqua, 140 lb, hot press, 11 x 15"

Paint: Pearl Ex, Color Shifting Red-Blue, Homemade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #167

Today I present part of a Pietro Annigoni painting which was described as a "Girl from Ceylon", but I can't find any image of with that title.  In spite of that, I did find the model's name is Sharmini Terchelban.

I had a paper malfunction where the stretched paper was pulling out the staples on the left side, so I called it quits on this one.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, cold press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #166

And another of Jennie Jerome, 1874 (AKA Winston Churchill's Mum).

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, hot press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #165

And another monochrome of Lady Elizabeth Asquith, 1914.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, hot press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #164

Tonight I post another one of those monochrome John Singer Sargent charcoal portraits of C J Conway, 1919.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, hot press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #163

Today I present another one of those John Singer Sargent charcoal monochromes of Lady Norah Brassey, 1925.  Well, the interwebs made it a pain in the ass for me to copy and paste, so too bad for Lady Norah.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, cold press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

Head Study #162

Today I present another one of those John Singer Sargent charcoal monochromes of Lucy Wortham James, 1922.  Lucy’s grandmother was the sister of Robert G. Dun, of Dun and Bradstreet and "inherited a portion of the sizable estate of Robert G. Dun in the form of shares of R.G. Dun & Company. She later became the largest stockholder of the reorganized firm, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc."

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, cold press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #161

Tonight I present another monochrome copy of a John Singer Sargent charcoal drawing of Edith Chester Beatty, nee Dunn, 1915.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, hot press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head Study #160

Tonight I present another monochrome copy of a John Singer Sargent charcoal drawing of Winston Churchill, 1925.  Again, probably not a cantatrice, but you never know.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, hot press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

Head Study #159

Tonight I present another monochrome copy of a John Singer Sargent charcoal drawing of Sybil Sassoon, 1912.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, hot press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

 

Head Study #158

Tonight I present another one of those monochrome copies of a John Singer Sargent charcoal drawing of Aline Wythes, nee Thorold,1915.  I'm pretty sure she wasn't a cantatrice.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, hot press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

Head Study #157

You can take the girl out of Georgia, but you can't take Georgia out of the girl (Republic of).  This is a monochrome of Tamara Imeretinsky Bagration, 1945.

Paper: NY Central, 140 lb, hot press, 22 x 15"

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue