Ms. Cecil Wade by John Singer Sargent is by far and away one of my most favorite paintings. It is housed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. As a child we took field trips there and I stared up at it, a rather large painting, and was completely lost in the folds of her dress, the way her neck slants so delicately to the side. While doing the pre-planning for this week, it hit me that when I thought of profiles, hers was the one. As it happens, I have a book of selected acquisitions from the museum (fished out of a recycling bin while volunteering, if you must know) and I thumbed through to that page and began trying out different options for drawing Ms. Cecil Wade. It was tough, but again--I had fun doing it! I also felt like I had just a tiny bit more facility while using acrylics. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it's what I went with.
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