A Quick Sketch of a young girl who I think is the youngest daughter of the neighbors, possibly drawn as a sample to demonstrate what a drawing might look like with a light ochre paper base.

The portrait is an example of using conté crayon on light ochre paper. The shade of yellow is noticeably lighter than the rich ochre color of the paper she often used in England, see Roberta as an example.

While looking through pictures of Christine’s other drawings, I could see the similarity between this image and another drawing of a young girl on grey paper. The model is wearing the same blouse in both. If you examine them closely, you can see that here Christine has drawn the same subject, but at a later date, showing a little more age on the the model and recording her with longer hair as well as slightly increasing the length of her neck and adjusting the other proportions of her face. Christine was a very keen observer of the changes in children’s faces as they grew older.