The project of making small pastel studies of people’s faces continues. The latest are these three, of the same subject, who I will call DB, short for Danish boy. My references were old photographs, blurry, the face literally thumbnail-sized, taken when he was three and a half years old (right), about five (above) and about 10. I wanted to capture the essence of his features at those different moments in the narrative of his life.
For the first two drawings, I used my trusty Jaxell soft
pastels (the square ones in the 72-color set), which I often employ for
sketching or practice, and used rough paper (karduspapir) from Stelling. For
the third (the boy at age 10), I thought something more permanent would be in
order, namely Rembrandt soft pastels on brown pastel paper.
All three were
drawn freehand, which gave me a solid feeling of achievement.
I love the sun-drenched look of the last picture, the light falling on the boy’s bare shoulders, the cast shadows with a bit of red in them. The lopsided smile. 💕- Bing
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