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Tamara

Tamara de Lempicka, one of the twentieth century’s fabulous forgotten figures. A very Art Deco person. This is also always what I’ve imagined Dagny Taggart looking like.

Pencil on Stonehenge paper. Light background color added to the scanned image.

One of these times, I might try taking on the full image (from the link) rather than just head and shoulders. Ms. Lempicka seems to have been an awful bitch. But talented. And definitely fabulous, at least in that oh-so-dramatic photo.

I’m particularly pleased with how her face turned out.

One Comment

  1. MJR
    MJR March 22, 2017 8:54 am

    Very well done. Your rendition of Tamara certainly has the Dagny Taggart look all right. Kinda what I envisioned when I read in Atlas Shrugged where Dagny is listening to her brother’s BS.

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