I had to make some decisions today on how I would represent the skin in my portrait. I had cut around the main line drawing, I’ll refine it later, but the question then is do I carve out the main area of skin or not? The model has darker skin so I didn’t want to use a technique that would make her skin look white. I thought of a life drawing lesson I had way back when I was in Swansea Art College, back in the 1970s. My wonderful lecturer, Glenys Cour, asked us to look at the body as if it was a geographical feature and then draw contour lines over it, to show the rises and falls. So I got myself a pencil and drew onto my lino portrait and then cut the lines. I won’t know if it will have worked until I get to print it, which should be in the next few days.
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Very cool