Lana Turner

Portrait of actress Lana Turner

I've been wanted to make a portrait with Sepia only for quite some time (I've already mixed it with Sanguine a few times) to add more examples of that medium to my website. I needed a picture with great contrasts and I immediately thought about that beautiful picture of Lana Turner I had found at Dr Macro. If you like pictures from classical movies, you have to check this site. It's awesome

Now about the artwork:
sepia on watercolor hot pressed paper.
Size of the paper: 23x31 cm
Size of the artwork: 21x29 cm
source for the reference: Dr Macro
time to draw: 25 hours

Although the skin tones are not what they usually look like in what I call semi realistic drawings, I consider it semi realistic because of all the details in her main features and her hair.

Available as original and prints. More info: www.aurelia-art.com/index.php/…

There you'll find all the steps of the WIP as well as the full size picture.