Wednesday, January 12, 2011

'Amelia' pencil portrait

Price: 195.00 GBP plus postage and packing.

Graphite on heavy weight Bristol paper. Original available for purchase. Contact me for details: Email Me

After listening to a radio show about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, I found myself inspired to find out more. While researching I came across a great vintage reference photo; it 'cried out to me', and I instantly knew I had to use it as a reference/basis for a pencil portrait.

With this particular portrait, unlike previous my work of this type, I've opted to concentrate on her face alone, and merely hint of her flying clothing in a more 'sketchy' manner.

4 comments:

Spit said...

beautiful !
thanks for your art !

Alexandre Jay said...

Merci, Spit! : )

NeilF92 said...

You can rightly be pleased with this one Alex - very nice pencil portrait .

Alexandre Jay said...

Thank you, Neil. I was very pleased with the way she came out.