The Missing Shade of Blue

Page from an art journal. Collage on Moleskine sketchbook paper. 

…[David] Hume’s idea that although all our knowledge of the world comes through our senses, a man shown a series of graduating blues with a missing shade could intuit its colour from somewhere within himself…

(From a book review in The Guardian.)

Female head study, graphite & white pencil on recycled/brown paper. 

I am forever indebted to anonymous girls on the internet for the infinite supply of photo references. To each one, thank you, beautiful lady, wherever you are. I would be a lesser artist if it weren’t for your generosity and/or low self-esteem.