This portrait, inspired by Tamara de Lempicka's 1928 High Summer, was rendered using coloured pencils.




This sketch is based on one of the figures in Tamara de Lempicka's The Orange Scarf (1927). I chose to drop the orange scarf and brighten up her blouse using a brilliant blue oil pastel.
Tamara de Lempicka exhibited from 1922 to 1972. Her works were mostly figurative paintings that seemed at once, psychologically distanced, yet charged with sensuality. An excellent account of her works and influence, titled Tamara de Lempicka: Art Deco Icon was published by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2004.