Bill Murray mets Hans Holbein

Disclaimer: I don't think that I produce work to the same standard as Holbein.

Now I am feeling under the weather...its autumn and it seems that I pick some form of virus - guess this is the product of getting old. Anyway, it has meant that I am fit for nothing else other than draw - which is a bit of luck! So this morning I produced this sketch of the model from my art class on Monday which, whilst not quite the likeness I would want, has something of the Holbein about it. Yesterday I was watching the wonderfully absorbing The Life Aquatic of Steve Zoozo and I started to sketch Bill Murray and looking at them both I thought wouldn't it be fun to put them together. Silly I know but there we are...strange how the befuddled mind works.

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Hans Holbein the younger

I knew that there were suggestions that Holbein had used some form of optical assistant for his drawings & paintings but I wasn't aware that there was clear evidence. Yet, whilst watching the latest (?) episode of Civilisation a close up was shown of a drawing Holbein made of Thomas Moore. Here you can clearly see a series of dots that form the outline of the features of Moore. Holbein appears to have used these as a guide to help him make a likeness of Moore. This was followed by a series of other drawings which showed the same thing. Undoubtedly nothing new to the world but new to me.

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