Two Faces on Dark Paper - Drawings by Sarah Myers

Face and Doorway, Sarah Myers

     Creating drawings of this type is very intriguing, as the basic technique is almost opposite that of a usual sketch. Here, the ground of the paper must be used as the shadow, rather than the highlight. It is the density and strength of the pencil that determines the brightness of the glow. Because I have purposefully left the white charcoal unblurred and unblended, you may see in the details the myriad of tiny lines that form the face's shapes and expressions.  

Head in White Charcoal, Sarah Myers

Face and Doorway, Sarah Myers
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Head in White Charcoal, Sarah Myers
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Woman with a Small Bird - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

Woman with a Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in terracotta

She looks at the small bird held lightly, carefully, in the palm of her hand. The bird gazes back, its head slightly turned to catch her in its view.

   The woman sits with one knee drawn up, the other leg bent as she sits on the ground; her long skirts fall in heavy folds around her. Many elements are meant to convey a connection, over the millennia, with the bright, gentle spirit of the Tanagra figures from ancient Greece. But though she is of the same lively orange-red earth – terracotta clay, full of iron, that can be found across the globe – and though she sits so still - motionless, with her tiny finch that never flies away - she is from a much younger world, the one that belongs to you and me...

  

Woman with a Small Bird, Sarah Myers
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Woman with Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Left side

Woman with Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Right Side

Woman with Small Bird, Sarah Myers
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Woman with a Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Close-up

Woman with a Small Bird
Sculpture by Sarah Myers