"Bernadette" Charcoal portrait on grey paper

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Black and white charcoal on grey paper

Date

22 May 2004

Creation time

Approx 1 hour

Tags

Charcoal drawings

Coloured paper

Drawings

Portraiture

Tonal rendering

Comments by the artist

This is my friend Bernadette. She was wearing a groovy black jumper that was buttoned on the side. I drew one of the buttons on the edge of the picture but it looks a little distracting, I should have left it out. Sometimes less is more!