And yet another quick sketch
As I mentioned before: I simply can't bring myself to create any 'finished' drawings. They all end up looking terribly cramped and tentative. Quick sketches seem to be more fun, and however amateurish they might look, I seem to nevertheless have more success with them than with attempts at something more professional looking.

This one was very roughly copied in pen and ink with watercolour, from some or other 19th century oil painting by an artist whose name I forgot to make a note of, so now I have no idea whom to credit for the original. Hint to web masters: make the artist's name part of the file name.

Anyway, the original, typical of works from the era, is a marvel of rich, subtle colour and light, quite unlike my rather modernist version, which looks like it belongs on a greeting card. Which is in fact exactly what I turned it into by gluing it to a piece of card. I'll be the death of Hallmark's yet.