Tag: portrait

Roman mummy portrait

In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew a Roman mummy portrait from the British Museum’s collection using Copic markers and coloured pencils.

Roman Mummy portrait, Egypt 80-120 AD: 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.) (encaustic and tempera on limewood panel)

    Esther

    Esther in coloured pencils and watercolour.

    Ellie

    Ellie drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

    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

    Moon

    Moon drawn with Copic markers, watercolour and coloured pencils.

    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).

        Bridget

        Bridget drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

        Zachary

        Zachary drawn with ballpoint pens.

        Chris

        Chris drawn with Copic markers and coloured pencils in a Midori Cotton sketchbook.

        Olivia

        Olivia drawn with coloured pencils in Thursday’s Drawing Faces class.