Vision of Peace

Drawing of a replica of the head of Carl Milles’ Vision of Peace’ sculpture. He made the original in onyx and the replica in diabas stone, also known as Mexican onyx.

(Replica of a sculpture by Carl Milles, 1936, Millesgården, Sweden. Photo by Xanax Svensson -one work, CC BY-SA 3.0)

    Anon

    Drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

    A recurrent problem with using the Museum by Sktchy app is that I occasionally lose an inspiration photo from my huge queue of images to draw. I lost the inspiration photo for this portrait after tidying up my queue last week. So I can’t credit the muse, hence the “Anon” title.

    Erika

    Erika drawn with coloured pencils.

    Head of the Virgin Mary

    In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew an ivory sculpture of the head of the Virgin Mary from the Philippines.

    Head of the Virgin Mary, 18th-19th century, Phillipines, Honolulu Museum of Art accession Photo By Hiart – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53161575

    Kseniya

    Kseniya drawn with Bic 4-colour ballpoint pens.

    Shakespeare

    In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew Roubiliac’s terracotta bust of William Shakespeare which is in the British Museum’s collection.

    Portrait bust of William Shakespeare by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1702-1762: The British Museum: © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence

    Lana

    Lana drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

    Nick

    Nick drawn with Copic markers and coloured pencils.

    Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an óbà)

    In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew a cast brass Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an óbà or king from the Court of Benin) from the 15th-16th century.

    Tatiana

    Tatiana drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.