Vivre Sa Vie

This is a drawing I made about a year ago after seeing the Godard film, "Vivre sa vie." It shows the scene where Anna Karina is watching the silent film about "Jeanne d'Arc" and as the woman on screen starts crying, Anna starts crying too. I included this with my drawing of Debbie Reynolds (Singing in the Rain) and Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces) in my "Women Crying" series that was in my friend Molly's exhibit two weeks ago. I will post images of the 3 together in a bit. This drawing was created with black Staedtler pigment liners on sketchbook paper.

Sleepwalking

Hmmm...where to begin? I started drawing a figure, only having a vague idea of what I was doing. I wanted to make a weird lanky female with really long, blonde hair, and I wanted to keep the composition really simple. I decided I would use only a few colors - pale yellow for hair, pale purple for the body, and either light gray or white in the background. But somewhere along the way I turned the figure into what now appears to be a male with an incredibly long forehead wearing a sleeping bag and walking on a green pasture with the pattern of my pajama pants in the background...hmmm....I changed the colors of the arms from a dark maroon color to the current teal/blue and also added the harlequin-like diamond pattern in select areas.

Here's a close-up of the face, which I find hilarious for some reason - such determination! Such a giant forehead! Created with Staedtler permanent marker, gouache, watercolor, pencil, and colored pencil.