Having cleaned my pens, yesterday, I decided it was time to start DRAWING!
(well... technically, I decided it was time to start drawing again BEFORE I cleaned the pens... that is WHY I cleaned the pens!)
It being Thursday, I thought I would start with the Thursday Portrait Challenge by Studio Tea Break on Bluesky. I had participated in these when I used to have a Twitter account. Studio Tea Break eventually moved to Bluesky, so...
This week's Challenge was ‘The Princess’ (Painting of a Shawi Berber woman from Algeria), painted by Frederick Arthur Bridgman sometime between 1870 to 1878.
This is my take on it. It's a start...
I like the Thursday Portrait Challenge. It's like the time-honoured tradition of Painting from the Masters - copying the works of those who've gone before to learn their techniques through the process of DOING them. I guess this isn't exactly the same thing, because I very definitely did not do this with oil paints!
Here is the original...
Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Princess (1870) - borrowed from Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Arthur_Bridgman_-_The_Princess_%281870%29.jpg
Studio Tea Break can be found here:
https://bsky.app/profile/studioteabreak.bsky.social
My stuff on Bluesky can be found here:
https://bsky.app/profile/timinsaskatoon.bsky.social
I have previously posted on this blog a number of the Portrait Challenges I did through 2022 here:
Virtual Studio - Thursday Portrait Challenges