Title
I'll kill you, If you want me to
Artist
Paul Davenport
Medium
Drawing - Compressed Charcoal On Paper
Description
I have been wanting to do a portrait of Hugh Laurie as "House" for ages - specifically where he turns to "13" - who is traumatised about being alone and having Huntingtons chorea and knowing she will at some point want to end things, and says "Il kill you, If you want me to!. Freaks me out. Have just spent a couple of days watching him in House, this isnt particularly based on when he turns to her in the car, where the ambient light is very low, but I wanted to try and capture the empathy in his eyes when he did.
I haven't done many portraits before and am finding them rather fun.
Drawing is done with charcoal and compressed charcoal on 200gm2 Daler, Rowney FineGrain, HeavyWeight A2 paper.
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February 13th, 2015
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Comments (55)
Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Paul!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "Your Best Work"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! 😊
Maggie Terlecki
OMG, it looks and feels just like Hugh Laurie. I remember him from before house, where you played comedy with Stephen Fry, then many incredible years playing House. I remember this quote, with 13. Heartbreaking but so human. Beautiful portrait! :-) Maggie
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #13 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
Kay Brewer
Hugh has so many sides - comedy, drama, satire. I loved House. This is an excellent and intense portrait of him, Paul. l/f
Claudia O'Brien
This is so powerful, Pau!. You captured such nuanced feeling with your enviable talent and patience. Congratulations! l/f
Nancy Kane Chapman
So happy this one came back around for me to find it. I was a huge House fan. What a great portrait !!! F/L+++
Paul Davenport
Thank you to Taikan Nishimoto for featuring this drawing in the 'The Best 30000 Artworks' group :-)
Robert Yaeger
Second comment on this brilliant drawing, Paul. "I'll Kill You, If You Want Me To" has been placed in the Special Features Section on the home page of the First Friday Gallery Group. Congratulations!
Paul Davenport
Thank you to Antonio Ravelli for featuring this drawing in the 'The Creative' group :-)
Marcia Lee Jones
Certainly caught his essence!
Paul Davenport replied:
well - I had to watch the dvd's a few times... but decided not to try and represent him when he actually said those words as there was hardly any light at all and it was a bit creepy!... though I may do another :-)