Billie
Jazz Portraits - Billie Holiday
€400.00
Out of stock
Loosely based on Robin Carson's 1940 photograph of Billie Holiday, I drew this portrait in charcoal.
The gardenia is exaggerated to contrast with the difficulties Billie Holiday faced as a Black artist in America and the personal tragedies she experienced through her life. The charcoal is scored across her chest to express her scars.
For all that, I emphasised the determination in her expression to overcome everything with Jazz singing.
30 x 42 cm (A3).
11.8 x 16.5 inches.
Provided.
In bottom right hand corner.
2021.