Model Sleeping on her Side (pencil drawing)

© Letizia Morley 2007

Going through the archives brings up all kinds of things I’ve forgotten I had done. This is one of the earliest portrait drawings I did in my first art class. Here is the model in the portrait drawing studio in a side lying pose. Considering all the possible poses a model could choose to hold over the course of three hours, this would be the top choice. Of course, it’s not really up to the model to choose so I think they secretly hope for the art instructor to go easy on them each time. Once I served as a model for a portrait painting class and that was it for me! Not as easy as it looks by any means! And it was really amusing to see what the art students’ finished paintings of me looked like. I didn’t realize I was a native Hawaiian! 😉

Portrait of Girl in White Collared Shirt (Pencil drawing)

© 2008 Letizia Morley

Another drawing from the archives, done in 2008. The model got lost on the train on the way to the art school so there wasn’t enough time to complete the drawing. This drawing class was only once a week for 3 hours at a time so I definitely felt pressure to finish quickly. But you know, if you get the shadows and light in just the right places, that goes a long way into making a drawing or painting seem more finished and, if you’re lucky, life-like. 

“Tender Moment”: pencil drawing of mother and child

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© Letizia Morley 2014

This was done as a baby gift for a good friend and I hoped it would encapsulate the small yet strongly memorable moments in those early days.

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Portrait of Girl looking upward (pencil drawing)

© Letizia Morley 2008

This is done early on in my first drawing class back almost 9 years ago. It was the first time I took a formal art class (a once-a-week course designed for adults), despite my whole childhood spent drawing and painting as a hobby. It was hard to unlearn some of the bad habits I had developed over time but so worth the effort! 

Dunfermline Abbey Church, Dunfermline, Scotland

© 2017 Letizia Morley

I recently visited Dunfermline Abbey and Palace and snapped this shot of the inside of the Romanesque church nave, which was built in 1128 as part of the medieval Benedictine monastery. This place is one of the most important cultural and historical sites in Scotland.