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Nick
Astbury
President of the Royal College
of Ophthalmologists
Conté crayon on Ingres paper
15 x 20 inches
Conte crayon is a type
of chalk, which can be used for broad sweeping strokes or can be
sharpened to give very fine detail. The effect is similar to a pastel
picture. The colours in these portrait drawings can be merged with great
subtlety and the portrait commission undertaken from live sittings in
the studio or from a photograph. Typically, formal institutional or
academic commissions will take several sittings. They can be mounted and
framed to give an impressive result. Bing Jones has been commissioned by
a number of prestigious medical Royal Colleges to paint their presidents
and other senior officers.
This was drawn at three live sittings at the Royal College of
Ophthalmologists in a lovely Regency Room overlooking Regent’s Park
where it now hangs.
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