Sunday 5 September 2010

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon
Pencil Sketch on Cartridge Paper

Today’s daily post is a fantasy sketch of Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII. I’ve been watching the first season of the BBC series “The Tudors” this week and I recently read the book “The Other Boleyn Girl”. In both of these my favourite character was been Queen Catherine who both in fiction and in historical record is portrayed as a good person who lived a privilege but tragic life full of loss and betrayal… I do have a thing about tragic figures lol

This sketch is inspired by several period paintings of Catherine.

5 comments:

  1. How about one of Eleanor of aquitaine? Now, there was a woman....

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  2. I will have a look about for period reference and we'll see what happens :)

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  3. very nice. I'm going to look into this cartridge paper. Never heard of it.

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  5. Thanks Fay :) Cartridge paper may be called something else in the US but here in the UK it's one of the more common multi-purpose art papers. Here's a link to a forum discussing just that point http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55768

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