Art...

This was a pencil/coloured pencil sketch I made of a female highwayman. After reading

Celia Rees 'Sovay' I fell in love with the idea of female highwaymen. Years and years ago I watched 'Plunkett and Macleane' and have watched it hundreds of time since...this brought about my interest in highwaymen in general...but Sovay, made me research into the female ones. I was totally inspired and came up with the above. I am extremley proud of the shading on this, and the hair.

This is a mixed media picture of Rapunzel. I wanted to draw something more true to the Grimm brothers than the child friendly version. This is after she has met the prince, and is possibly pregnant with her child. She is no longer the niave innocent child. I pictured her crying because of her healing tears.