No 4 is 'Drawing the statue that the people are looking at'

Funnily enough this work gives me the chance to consider from another angle a visit to Copenhagen.

Each exercise falls under a particular banner - this is one from the imagination.

Idea is to put in what they're looking at (a statue)
Of course statues have plinths.
and it looks like it's a sunny day.
The people aren't old.
The birds are not resting on the statue.
The people look happy-ish and not scared .
So after a think I decided they might be looking at something funny and  with a surface that's not comfortable for the birds

The book has this to work with

The Statue I saw in Copenhagen 

The statue I decided to have the people looking at was Denmark's   first public statue of a Black Woman, a ‘Rebel Queen’ and is of Mary Thomas and is called “I Am Queen Mary” it was inspired by an uprising led by Mary Thomas in Frederiksted in the Danish West Indies in 1878.

The seated figure shows Mary with a torch in one hand and a tool used to cut sugar cane in the other


The statue is by La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers and was completed in 2018, the statue is said to reference a 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton (you might recognise it).


I saw the Statue in Copenhagen this summer and took  a photograph of it then it is located in front of what was once a warehouse for Caribbean sugar and rum.

I made a copy of the page in the book in black and white and added a sketch of the statue - I was reminded that sculpted statues in ancient times were often coloured but the passage of time has removed the colour - we saw an example of how a sculpture might look in Copenhagen too

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Recumbent Lion - how it might have been coloured.

And without the colour as it is now

Recumbent Lion  from Loutraki 570 -560 BCE

Well here's my sketch...