The Crafty Hare

We drew Johannes Vermeer’s painting The Milkmaid in this week’s Drawing Faces class.

Ashley drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

Bryan drawn with Bic ballpoint pens.

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/)

Zoey drawn with coloured pencils.

We drew a study of Cecilia Gallerani, Leonardo do Vinci’s The Lady With An Ermine, in this week’s Drawing Faces class.

Bridget drawn with coloured pencils.

Kennedy drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

Jenell drawn with ballpoint pens.

Green man drawn with Copic markers and coloured pencils in yesterday’s Artist in Residence Tag Team teachers class celebrating May Day.

Mad drawn on an iPad Sir using the Procreate app.

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 in coloured pencils and watercolour.

Ellie drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

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 drawn with Copic markers, watercolour and coloured pencils.

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).