While I was waiting for the first layer of paint on 'Lost Hopes' to dry, I googled some images and found one of a young woman with an elaborate hairstyle (check the original image out here: http://www.more-hairstyles.com/prom/p16.jpg).
This got me thinking; so much of what we are is artifice; women cover themselves in cosmetics to appear different to how genetics made them, and men and women alike try to project an image to the world of who they want to be perceived as....at the end of the day, we're all just powder and paint aren't we?
So I doodled this on Daler Rowney black HB portrait paper with a Derwent inktense pencil, scarlet ink and oil pastel.
Apologies to the young lady in the picture if I've portrayed her in an unflattering manner; feel free to contact me and ask for me to remove this if this is you.
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