Portraits Henry David Thoreau, Sir Ernest Shackleton and more

'Thank God men cannot fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.'
 - Henry David Thoreau.

charcoal on paper

My cloud study and portrait juxtaposed on photoshop.

 As much as I have tried , I cannot discover who the original photographs were taken by. Nevertheless, capturing such inspirational people on paper with my my chosen medium is both challenging and exhilarating.

Sir Ernest Shackleton - famous Antarctic explorer

 "We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. 

We had reached the naked soul of man.”

David Suzuki

charcoal on paper

Archie Roach

charcoal on paper

Reading a book about Leonardo Da Vinci and his passion for drawing the human face, I was pleasantly surprised to come across the term 'physiognomy' - at last I have a name for my affliction!

The dictionary definition as is-

Physiognomy

noun (plural physiognomies)

The art of judging human character from facial features.

a fascination for the human face

a person’s facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin: