The Portrait chapter 11
This poetic drawing has a wonderful, almost shimmering quality of light that is the result of the almost complete elimination of
hard edges. The only really crisp edge is at the point where the shoulder meets the neck and on the cast shadow on the neck.
Even though this is a portrait of a particular person, because of the lack of detail and the diffused quality of the shading, the
subject becomes much more about form and a gently sifting quality of light.
The forward lean of the subject and the wispy strokes around the hair suggest a feeling of movement that adds to the ethe-
real mood of the drawing.
Pan,by Juliette Aristides,
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