Children's Portrait
22" X 30"
Charcoal on Paper
2014
This is a children's portrait completed last year on Stonehenge paper. I used the Pan Pastel sponge tools to apply charcoal and white chalk highlights for most of the work.
Children's portraits are a unique challenge to my working approach as they display many round and soft qualities in their features, and these qualities fly in the face of straight edged definitions of form. So, using the sponge tools seemed a logical choice in mitigating some of the extremes that can result due to my method of shape interpretation.
