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

 

Head Study #156

Tonight I present another one of those John Singer Sargent monochrome copies of Myra Hess, 1920.  Myra was a "pianotrice".  Yeah, I just made that up.  But I'll Google it.  Yep, it's all mine!

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

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

Head Study #155

John Singer Sargent revisited.  Here is a monochrome copy of a charcoal drawing of Mrs George Swinton, 1906.  From the jssgallery.org, "Although British, she actually grew up in St Petersburg, and left vivid accounts of life in pre-Revolution Russia."  Oh, and she was another "cantatrice".

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

Paint: Blick PB15:4 Phthalo Blue

 

Head Study #154

Here's another drawing by Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988).  I can't remember why I tried this, maybe because I thought it would be fairly simple.

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

Paint: Home made PB82 Maya Blue Dark, no ox gall.

 

Head Study #153

Tonight I present a copy of a drawing by Pietro Annigoni, 1970.

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

Paint: Home made PB82 Maya Blue Dark, no ox gall.