Remember Mrs Doyle from Father Ted? Go on, go on… I heard Pauline McLynn, the actor who played her, interviewed on the radio. When she was asked about the fact that she often plays older women she said:
It’s like I’ve got a mother and a grandmother inside me.
It got me thinking about Matryoshka dolls or Russian nested-dolls and what they might look like with modern women. Here are three nested women drawn in felt-tip pen on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
This is a beautiful illustration Mandy! Funny, ‘cos I stumbled upon this today: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kitaj-man-with-matisse-tattoo-p05428
thank you Mel! i haven’t heard of that artist and the image is very striking, I like it! inspiration for extending drawing club sketches perhaps?
Oooh, good thinking
I can’t stop looking at this drawing, Mandy! Wonderful characterisation. And in my favourite medium of felt tip
There is a set of Russian dolls that belong to Neil, which I love – painted as 7 Russian presidents and leaders, going back to Lenin. We like to play out mini political/ideological dramas by placing them in silly juxtapositions …
Thanks Angie. I think you could set up a blog for your political dolloramas!