Sentence examples for portrait sketching from inspiring English sources

He also knew where a performer's special magic lay, and he had a deft, pen-and-ink style of portrait sketching.

To have one's portrait sketched takes twenty minutes and costs twenty dollars.

I think Rathburn is – on balance – an anti-Scientology hero, but we deserve the more ambiguous, troubling portrait sketched here.

The last original cast member of the 1954 production of Under Milk Wood is to have her portrait sketched as part of Dylan Thomas centenary celebrations.

In addition to the portrayal of Katherine, Hazlitt likes that of Cardinal Wolsey and of King Henry himself, which, though "drawn with great truth and spirit [is] like a very disagreeable portrait, sketched by the hand of a master".

A self-portrait sketched in 1929 shows a proud man looking with mute defiance and a soupçon of bitterness.

IN a corridor of a school on the edge of Chinatown, one wall is devoted to self-portraits sketched by fifth graders.

Mr. Goings also opened drawers and pulled out paintings: a 1956 collage called "First Circus"; Bearden's "left-handed drawings" (he trained himself to draw with his left hand, as bone cancer made him lose control in his right); and self-portraits sketched on porous white paper with a black felt-tip pen, made days before his death, showing him slumped in a chair.

—Voltaire 1 "This I drew, using a mirror; it is my own likeness, in the year 1484, when I was still a child," wrote Albrecht Dürer about his first self-portrait, sketched with great confidence and skill when he was 13 years old (1 ).

The portrait sketches were expanded because of their great popularity.

He later developed an enthusiasm for an American singer, Cher.Mr Farmelo's sympathetic portrait sketches Dirac's unhappy family background.