Another Quick Sketch of a young woman, this one showed signs of having been mounted on the wall in her small gallery, so not exactly a “throw away” although it wasn’t signed.

The portrait is an example of using conté crayon on grey paper. My mother seemed to use a variety of different stocks or shades of gray paper sometimes being often limited by what was available locally. The grey paper fills in the mid tones with the black conté crayon working for the structure and shadows while the white conté is lightly added to provide highlights and shape.