This is Julia from Sktchy. I was struck by how strange the proportions of her face looked in her Sktchy photo and I had fun capturing them in my portrait. I’m not suggesting she has a strangely proportioned face, merely that the camera did something weird when it took the photo, as cameras often do. I’m noticing that it’s these slightly “off” photos that attract my attention more and more – wondering if it’s a response to the endless stream of manufactured perfection we get fed by the media?
I love drawing things. These days I am rarely found without a pen, pencil or stylus in my hands. In my working life I spend a lot of time in meetings and classrooms, reading papers and strategies, so my home life provides a creative antidote to all that! I also have chronic pain, lots of it. I have scoliosis, fibromyalgia and CRPS, so my life is a balancing act, trying to balance work, which make me feel part of the real world, with pain, which is ever present, and art, which soothes my pain.
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drawing faces 