We went to the National Gallery to look at the Zurich Portrait Prize shortlisted pieces, as one of our friends, Marie Lemen, is one of the shortlisted artists. She did a fantastic watercolour portrait of Sean Hillen. I was a bit disappointed to see that half of the shortlisted entries were photographs. I love photography. My husband is a street photographer. But I think it should be a separate category. How do you compare photography and painting when deciding on who wins the overall prize?
I sketched for a little while, focusing on visitors to the gallery who were looking at The Rape of Europa . I didn't know the title until I had finished my sketch. But I thought it worked in my current mood. But I couldn't focus for very long, so left it with just colour pencil drawing. I added watercolour at home.
Then I went to the café and sketched Pat. He's always a willing subject. He's been sketched dozens of times by many sketchers at this stage.
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