François Sagat has chosen to give us some insight into how he has accomplished one of his previous master works. Here is a composite of his “adaptation process” for the work that imitates the original painting by John William Waterhouse , “Cleopatra”.
Of course using a photograph to capture the facial expression is only logical, thus, I can’t believe I never thought of it! Silly me! I guess we can all understand Sagat’s giving into temptation to include more of his perfect body in the drawing than there is in the original, I mean who could resist??? Plus he gussied up the duds a bit. He was in fashion, after all. But to my way of thinking he captures the look of disdain so successfully that the work succeeds on all levels and is a masterpiece of drawing. Another amazing self portrait is based on a work of Waterhouse’s and can be seen here, with my review.
He has also published some other works, some for the first time and some not.
More drawings can be seen on his website. I recently saw a drawing of his of hairless cats with tattoos on their heads just like his! They were adorable! I sure hope he publishes them soon!
