Number four in the On The Buses collection is Olive, played by Anna Karen. Recognisable…
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Samira Ahmed
We’re into lockdown and, with grass roots football missing from the calendar, my Sundays are no longer messed up and I can participate again in Portrait Artist Of The Week. This week’s subject is Samira Ahmed who I believe is a TV journalist.
When Samira turned up in a black top, I knew immediately that I would be sacrificing creases and curls to merge the black top into her black hair. I think that worked. I thought the Asian skin tone might be a problem but that seemed to go OK. In reality, I use the same colours as I do for white Europeans as it’s the values that are more important than the colours themselves. There’s a bit of a likeness there too, although I think the face shape isn’t quite right. Maybe the face should be shorter, or maybe narrower at the top and wider at the bottom.
Let’s be honest. This one’s a reject.
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