Greatly inspired by Susan Lyon, I did a few portraits in Graphite with a conscious attempt to keep them as pale looking as possible. Here I am posting one. Now I see it is really challenging because, while you are doing the rendering, the temptation is to go dark for details; However, if you want to keep it pale you just need to constantly fight that temptation, and you have to put on the brakes all the time. The other issue is that a pallid portrait might look too weak, or even worse it might look like an ailing person. When you look at Susan's portraits in monochromatic pastel you can see how the pallor helps creat a romantic, but not insipid, look on the face.
On the left is posted One of Susan' works which is my favorite: Like all the masters she has gone minimalist, not too generous with the pencil marks, yet look how this face
is emitting power and character !
Story of the Day:
Howard Lives
by Joseph Berman
I read this story through tears, alot of it, of laughter. A guy named howard refuses to obey the Death Angel, and roams around the town greeting everybody after he has totally died. You can find this story and many others of all genre in this website: http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
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