Pencil study of a Rembrandt portrait..

22cm x 30cm on 150g/m cartridge

This is a pencil study of Rembrandt's "Self portrait with a walking stick", 

for this I used Derwent pencils, minen leads and an oil pitt pencil.

I find doing pencil studies of the old masters is really usefull. Its always 

great to see masterworks but often it may be only for minutes, very 

rarely does anyone get the chance to stare for hours at the one work.

To do a pencil study its necessary to spend hours looking 

at the one painting in order to interpret it to the best of our

ability... a good way to learn.

Thanks for Looking :)