Degas "woman combing her hair"

By Robert Meredith -

This drawing was done on pastelmat paper A4 size andI tried to render it in the same way as Degas.  I don't do many life studies as I find them very difficult to do, but as a challenge this was great, to make me use a media that is not easy and to use observational skills to seek to render a good likeness to his work.

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