Anne

We drew Anne Boleyn in this week’s Drawing Faces class, from a portrait of her in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

(Anne Boleyn by Unknown English artist, late 16th century, NPG 668, National Portrait Gallery, London, Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)

Nebanum

In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew this tomb painting of Nebanum from his tomb in Thebes Egypt 1350 BC: 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

Minoan Dancing Ladies

For the next twelve weeks in my Drawing Faces class we’ll be looking at drawing faces through history. We started this week with this fresco from the Minoan Palace of Knossos, in Crete, Greece painted on plaster 3500 years ago (Ladies in blue fresco, Palace of Knossos, Greece 1600 – 1450 BCE: Wikimedia).