31/08/2026
Drawing after the painting ”Portrait of Romaine Lacaux” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1864), which can be seen at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
My lesson from this experience: avoid as reference an impressionist painting for coloured pencils! 😊 I loved the reference, I’ve studied every brushstroke of Renoir in it (it’s such a wonderful piece!), but it’s veeeery complicated, at least at my level, to make something very similar. Plus to translate a painting of 81,3x65 cm into a drawing of 12x15,1 cm…
Coloured pencils (mostly Polychromos, a few Luminance and Coloursoft).
Paper: the back of a Daler-Rowney Fine Grain Heavyweight.
Reference: Unsplash