Drawing of sculpture

Thomasin Dewhurst · 02-01-2008, 08:41 PM

I was going through my drawings for the competition I just posted the details of, and found this one I did a number of years ago. As a break from painting I used to make up caricatures in clay based on people I had met or just from my imagination. I would then draw the sculptures in pencil or charcoal. This one is drawn in pencil, and the sculpture was from my imagination. It is about 6" x 9" .

Here are some better images.

Allan Rahbek · 02-01-2008, 09:09 PM

Thomasin,
It's great, one can feelI feel the expression of life inside the mountain of flesh. It looks like the spirit of Nick Nolte wanting to come back to what he once was.

Thomasin Dewhurst · 02-01-2008, 11:05 PM

Thanks very much, Allan.

Carlos Ygoa · 02-02-2008, 06:35 AM

Thomasin, what a great drawing! I love the way you handled the modelling, almost like a pen drawing with the cross-hatchings, something I find extremely difficult to do when I work in pencil since I am always tempted to employ anything to smudge the marks with. You show great virtuosity...it is very humbling.

Alexandra Tyng · 02-02-2008, 10:38 AM

Thomasin, this is wonderful. The pencil strokes give the effect of a soft etching. The face emerges from the background not unlike the way the figures and faces in your paintings bulge out of the flat surface as if they are struggling to move and change expression. Do you have any more of these? And do you still have the sculptures? I would love to see the sculpture you were working from, just out of curiosity, if you are willing to show it.

Thomasin Dewhurst · 02-02-2008, 01:11 PM

Thank-you so much, Carlos and Alex! I am so glad you like them! I have some clay stored away, and I am inspired now to do some more. It is so nice to be accepted for what I am and do when I am not trying to impress but just doing what I love.

These are a few more images of a couple of drawings and some sculptures (not the sculptures the posted drawings come from) that I had on the computer at this time. I have pictures of the actual sculptures and some more drawings stored away so I'll get them out and post them in a little while.

Thomasin Dewhurst · 02-02-2008, 01:14 PM

These pictures are all I have so far, so they're a bit small and unclear. The one with the rounded corners is a self-portrait, but I feel it is a bit dull because I was trying to curb the caricaturisation of it and thus tightening up.