Before anyone can say 'self deluded' I should point out that I do not think these anti-aging creams do anything to halt the effects of time! However I do like a nice face cream and if nothing else they do make you feel pampered! I did this drawing as something else I feel grateful for - not these specifically but I have very dry skin and I'm glad we have a nicer choice now than when I was growing up in the seventies. I remember Pond's cold cream was popular then and my mother used to use Oil of Ulay all the time, now called Oil of Olay. She also used Nivea cream in a tin with a little foil top
and Atrixo hand cream (also in a tin!) and that didn't change much over the years.
Lancome Hydra Zen used to be my favourite cream but I alternate different creams and by the time I had got around to buying some more, the packaging and fragrance had changed! I still had my old pot, empty in the back of the cupboard where I had been meaning to draw it, so while I had a couple of more empty pots, now was a good time to draw them. I find packaging interesting - I wonder why companies decide to change it so often? My old Hydra Zen (left, back row) was in a lovely glass container, the new one in a cheap looking plastic. I would have thought glass was more successfully recycled.
HB, B and 4B pencil
11 comments:
These pots of cream are beautifully done, I feel like I could pick them up. Really like the glasses too, such fine pencil work.
Fantastic drawing!
Beautifully done Felicity! As always and such a pleasure to visit here.
Excellent perspective! And, as always, delicious pencil work!
Must be something in the air.
I've just this very minute come downstairs with a tray of face creams, either ones I used to love but then suddenly they stung, or empty ones.
The empty ones will be washed out and go to the reycling bin and the others for a friend to try out. I hate just to throw them out!!
I don't think they work either, but they do stop that 'tight' feeling, my face isn't mine any longer, I don't know whose it is but it's not mine (grin).
I love the touch of the reflected light in your drawing.
How I remember Nivea tins! In the 50s we used to take large ones and large tins of talcum powder to Greece as presents for all the aunts. It was all my mother could afford as gifts, but they were the height of luxury for the aunts!
So beautiful, Felicity! The simplicity of the pots under your pencil just sing!
Beautiful, Felicity. You really are a master at subtle shading with a pencil.
This drawing is so beauifully done, like a photo in realism, but so much better!
I think I love it too, because as I sat here looking, I was taken back to earlier times and seeing older female relatives' creams, brushes, etc.then having my own "beauty spot" to keep things. Such a grown up feeling.
Another beautifully rendered drawing, Felicity....great perspective too. :)
Very nicely done!
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