2nd Entry for Nov. 14, 2010

I stayed on for most of the afternoon, trying out some soft graphite on sheets of Japanese paper. The top one took about an hour and a quarter, and the one below revisiting the same pose from a few degrees over was roughly 30 minutes, and is the better of the two. 
The lowest one of S-  is done on an older, slightly messy sheet of Japanese paper, and is a 15-minute study. It is an `I have nothing to lose' image, and has the most gusto of the lot, even if the handling is a little raw.