Victorian Mink

Artist: Susan Bergstrom
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Victorian Mink

An original Pastel, Prismacolor Pencil, Pen and Ink drawing.

Drawn on card stock, bonded, acid free,low tooth artist drawing paper. I use a bonded paper with low or no tooth for the smooth blending abilities and so the pastels are not chewed up during the drawing process.

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All Around the Styles, Around The World, Art Inspired by Dreams, AW Welcome Center, Childhood, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Decorative and Traditional Art, Everyday Women, Impressionist Art, Just Brown, Live, Love, Dream: May you have a Blessed Christmas Season , Mixed Media, Pencil Drawing (2 per 24 hrs), Realist Traditional Art, Safe Haven, The Patchwork , The true beauty, United States, Vibrant and Vivid Color and Woman Appreciation Available for sale as

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Nancy Stafford

Beautiful artwork susan
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks so much Nancy!
Jerame *

beautiful
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks..from a drawing class for my students…pastels is all the rage!!!LOL
Romo

Love this:)
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks Robin..from today’s class…all my students want to learn pastel!!!
Nancy Stafford

your welcome susan
CarolM

Susan, you never cease to amaze me with your talents and artistry. Interesting facial expression and lighting. Great job.
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks so much Carol…I thought she came out looking like she just saw someone across the room…
CarolM

I think so but I’m not sure she’s happy about it.
barnsis

Such a lady, like you background features, Excellent art.
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks Big Guy! appreciate it!
Linda Callaghan

what a proud lady she looks, intriguing and mysterious…great art!
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks again!
Albert Dickson

How splendid. I like this very much. I am realy drawn to her right hand for some reason.
Susan Bergstrom replied

My Grandmother always sat like this and I have many pictures of her with her hands just like this! Thanks for viewing!
BarbaraManis

Wow, Susan, another masterpiece! Great work!
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks again…surely not the masterpiece you speak of but just a drawing for my art students as they all want to learn how to draw with pastels and color pencils…but I’ll take the masterpiece anyway!!!LOL
joedog

She looks all prim and proper, well done
Susan Bergstrom replied

That she is…and thanks for viewing and your comment!
Lynda Robinson

Very classy! Love the colours, and that texture in the foreground creates a great lead in.
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks Lynda…I am addicted to pastels and prismacolor pencils…the sky is the limit and I never know what is going to come out! Thanks for viewing and your observation!
thepaintedsoul

Another fine fluid drawin Susan. Has real STYLE!
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks! A demo for my students who are all hyped about learning to draw with pastel/color pencil.
dawndavies

a classy piece susan, dawnx
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks so much!
Dawnsky2

brilliant,,excellent feel of age to this work :)
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks…a study for my students who are learning pastel/color pencil.
Linda Bennett

Love this one fantastic work!!
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks so much Linda!
Gary L. Suddath

excellent work….she looks like someone that is use to being her own person and in charge
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks Gary…snooty!...LOL
UnEasy

I love that your work always gives free reign to our imaginations, allows us each to see something unique, though our perceptions overlap, and our attentions focused on different dimensions of the emotion. Your photos are a story tellers dream, in that they so easily inspire our capacity to create a narrative around the image.

I see a pampered, upper class, twentyish young woman, whose never had to deal with life
s harsh realities. Blessed not only materially, but with physical beauty as well. In a sense, I see a young, female Gatsby-like character in the process of creation. The annoyance in her face might reflect something as trivial as being glanced at by staff, an impertinence, which she would scarcely regard as “trivial”, but rather an omen that civilization itself was falling apart, lol.

I see strength in her face, but strength overshadowed by an insouciance which will sow the seeds of a hubris yet to come.
Susan Bergstrom replied

Kevin, I am humbled that you would take the time to see and say so much about my simple little drawing…I would love to have you go through my collection some time and just find ones that move you to such observations! You nailed this one though…as this was a photograph of an aunt from back in the 30’s and a combination of a photograph of my grandmother…both women were rather austere and proper…”People are finished, porkchops are done” kind of women!!! LOL…and God forbid if you used the wrong fork at dinner which was promptly at 6 pm, and you came dressed…
Thanks for this…it was refreshing to hear a observation based on your visual field.
J-C Saint-Pô

special, but i like it!
Susan Bergstrom replied

Don’t know what you mean by “special” but I’m pleased that you like it!
J-C Saint-Pô

special atmosphère, different from what i am used of you!
Susan Bergstrom replied

oh I see,...yes my backgrounds are usually blank or solid color…well thanks all the same!
Hidemi Tada

Very impressed Susan, good job!
Susan Bergstrom replied

Thanks again Hidemi!
Jim Phillips

What a classy piece, I do get that Victorian feel. I do agree with JC, this is not the norm for you in way of the style, but I like it very much.
Susan Bergstrom replied

It was a quick study for my students and I needed to show how to lay on the work just incase there were those who wanted to get involved in backgrounds…backgrounds to me are not my fav…Thanks for the view!
coffeetea

classic theme modern approach! looks great!
Susan Bergstrom

Thanks so much!!!