Drawn from The Ideal Head of a Woman, by Michelangelo, 1525
The Power of Women Art show Paris, 2007 .
The Power of Women celebrated the 25th anniversary of four graduates from Emily Carr School of Art and Design.
Jan Bell, Joanna Kobylka, Patricia Maré an I participated in the Charles H Scott Gallery Graduation Show in 1982.
This was my first and only experience of producing an art show in Paris.
Everything went well however due to something getting lost in translation we had two openings. Oh dear . . another party! It was great fun! For my participation I installed 29 painted pairs of shoes and four drawings from the masters.
Preparing for the show, I would draw and wonder what it was like to sit in the big galleries and draw from the masters own lines, shapes and colours rather than just taking a magnifying glass to the photos!
So if Mike and I were hanging out drawing this lovely woman, he would be using naturally mined chalk and I pencil on paper.
His paper was very different from what we draw on today. In the 1500’s paper was called “cloth parchment”. Vintage papers contained cloth, wood and straw beaten to a pulp, pressed, dried and hardened.
I would not be surprised if he knew the person who made his paper! I however go to the art store.
As you can see Michelangelo’s is exquisite. . .
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