Sans titre – 08-08-19

Lily Elsie
This drawing depicts Lily Elsie, Edwardian actress and singer. For obvious reasonsI liked the hair volume, its curls and plains. How much work was put into hairdos back then? Probably there were women who could have their hair fondled endlessly and many who had to work very hard. Anyway, more reason to extend the series ‘sans titre’ once more. It started with ‘Louise Brooks – 05-05-14’ although I did not called the series as such initially. After the first one I thought to called it ‘sans titre’ because I did not want people to compare the resemblance of the portrait to the portrayed. It was about my cubism style in the first place. In fact it is some kind of mixture of cubism and my personal style roundism.

Composition
In the compositionary stage I started, like always, dividing space into plains. All of a sudden I came to the idea to counterbalance straight linear structures with softer roundish blurs. Hence her fine features still would be captured