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Angel on the Clouds
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Sad Lady in Green
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Conte Pencil and Charcoal
15 x 24
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I like drawing this statue because she’s easy to see. Sometimes if I can’t get a drawing of one,
I’ll go back and draw her again. When I got a few portraits that looked like the same girl, I went back to the
ones that are more difficult. When I compare these drawings from a year and a half ago to the new one
of the goddess, I can see an improvement. It’s not instant.
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These are also drawings of the same statue above.
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Charcoal, Conte pencil Image
12 1/2 x 24 1/2
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Charcoal, Conte Pencil Image
12 1/2 x 16
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She holds a poppy and looks away from it. The flower symbolizes opium and she doesn’t want
it.
I draw her a lot. I think she looks sweet in the conte pencil drawing.
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I’ve tried to draw her twice so far; I got her on the second try.
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Charcoal, Conte Pencil Image
20 x 25 1/2
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I saw these beauties had reflected light bouncing all around them. Some was
warm reflected light compared to cooler and brighter sunlight. Also there’s cool reflected light in the shadows. I wanted
to get it all.
I used a pinkish-sanded pastel paper to give the figures some warmth, because they are white stone. And I used
a light touch with pastel pencils on the figures, and a lot of blending to get the values as accurate as I could. From where
I was standing I couldn’t see their faces clearly, so I moved my easel right in front of them to draw the heads. I waited
for the magnolias to bloom to do the background.
It took me a long time but I’m real excited about this picture.
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This angel is beautiful and famous, but difficult to draw.
Her eyes are cut so deep and hollow instead of rounded. I’ve drawn her a lot of times and I’m not finished. I
drew head studies for months then came back and tried again with better results.
The story about Varina is that she died of a broken heart because she loved
a Yankee and her father wouldn’t let her marry him.
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This is my favorite drawing, because I can see the progress I made in one year.
The statue’s left hand is broken off,
and last year I couldn’t draw the whole figure.
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Charcoal, Conte pencil Image 14 x 20
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