This sketch was done ultra quick, just to let off steam really. This is a made up face, so I just moved the chalk and conte across the paper having an enormous amount of fun. I love the close ups even more than the full portrait; they are more dynamic and mysterious. Hopefully, tomorrow we will have good light and I can draw a still life or something a little less ethereal. I have 10 days leave from work, so maybe the drawing vault will fill up some. I still feel a great need to go to a wonderful academic drawing class where we work on the same pose for three weeks, just investigating the form and the dynamics of light and dark. I won't be able to go to Florence this year to take up those wonderful drawing and painting workshops at the Angel Academy, but maybe this time next year, Guardian Angel willing, I will be looking for low cost flights to get me to wonderful Florence and six weeks of drawing and painting tuition with the Masters.
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