"Jess in a Hat", graphite, 2007.

When going through difficult creative times, it can be helpful to work from nature. The figure is always new, always refreshing, and having a model helps to snap one out of the doldrums. It is immediate, insists on itself. These are two drawings of the same sitter. Below is the head only in another version of the portrait of Jess wearing her hat.

"Portrait of Jess", graphite, 2007.