Keira Knightley

Over the past few days I have been working on a whole assortment of little projects, preparing a selection of prints for a forth coming exhibition, research into the iron age buying a new pair of shoes - the list goes on and on. One of the things I have been neglecting is the sketching I so enjoy. Well I have started to concentrate on this again with a series of drawings of Keira Knightley based on screen shots from perhaps her best movie to date, The Duchess (That is, of course if you discount The Bill or Phantom Menace - this is a joke BTW).

One of the advantages of the screen shot is that you can really examine the face and try different approaches to try and capture something interesting. IT isn't like drawing from life but rather a forensic examination of one person's face - the line of the check bone, the relationship of the eyes to the nose and so on. This allows you time to really get to know the face of one person in one instance in time. It matters not that the person is nothing like this in real life it is just the capture of that moment. For me the problem I had was with jaw line - Ms Knightly has a wonderfully pronounced jaw line and trying to capture this was always a problem. I'm not sure I have managed that yet but this is a start.

I am using the Apple wireless keyboard to type this and it is so much more enjoyable than the on screen keyboard...so top tip ... if you have an iPad get a keyboard they become so much more useful things and the Apple keyboard is such a dream to use. Anyway, that is enough of my rambling on - another advantage of the keyboard.

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