Today i found a couple hours to listen to a podcast and make a new sketch.
Wanting to try something new and different, i decided to draw in blue for a change. I have a couple Conté à Paris Pastel pencils in blue that were sharpened and ready to go, whereas my normal black was broken and kept breaking as i tried to sharpen it (the problem with concrete floors and dropping your pencils) - So blue it was!
The paper is Strathmore 500 Charcoal in cream which compliments the blue pencil nicely compared to a stark white paper.
The portrait is of Lady Agnew who was painted by John Singer Sargent in a famous painting of his in 1892.
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw is an oil on canvas portrait painting of Gertrude Agnew, the wife of Sir Andrew Agnew, 9th Baronet. The painting was commissioned in 1892 and completed the same year by the American portrait artist John Singer Sargent. It measures 127 × 101 cm (50.0 × 39.8 in) and is owned by the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. - Wikipedia
I just liked the look on her face, Sargent captured not only a likeness but an attitude with the slight raising of the eyebrow and the deep eyes looking through and down at you with a slight smirk on her mouth. Art historians have noted that she was said to of had the flu at the time of her sitting for Sargent - maybe that explains the look?
Some details of the eyes.
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