Cara Reading

When I was liv­ing in Port­land and too poor to afford mod­els, I put an ad on Craiglist, trad­ing a print of the final pas­tel draw­ing for a 3 hour sit­ting. Cara answered my ad. She had to study for finals and asked if I could draw her read­ing a book. She stud­ied, I drew. The base of this pas­tel is a won­der­ful orange pas­tel from Sen­nelier, it makes Cara’s skin very lumi­nous. I traded the fin­ished orig­i­nal to a Croa­t­ian named Branko for a win­ter coat and some hik­ing boots. I miss Portland’s barter sys­tem, I’ll have to start one up here in the Noog.

Nude pas­tel draw­ing done with Schminke pas­tels on Rives BFK paper.