Had a moment to play around in Photoshop with a bookplate design, fitting snugly into a major reading jag - a thorough tour of Charles Dickens. It launched with Tale of Two Cities, then David Copperfield. Just beginning Oliver Twist. Next, The Old Curiosity Shop and then on to a pretty little copy of Great Expectations. Before Dickens, I spent time in the magical world of Susanna Clarke, "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel" and "The Ladies of Grace Adieu," a charming book of short English faerie stories. There is a common thread: I'm adoring the English novel, especially those with illustrations.
We've started on a standing pose - I've got a very specific set of goals for this project, which I cannot jinx by writing about it, other than to say I'm working 4 drafts from one pose:
- charcoal and chalk on toned paper (19th c)
- graphite on white paper (NY realism)
- skeletal and muscular overlays
- an old master copy of a similar pose
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