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Sketched on iPad after Henri Matisse: "Le tobogan". Plate XX from his Jazz book, 1947.

I once painted this in gouache and ink for Prince Charles. He was visiting the museum I worked at and I did this kind of thing for visiting dignitaries in our Visitors Book. He liked it apparently. It is a lovely coast of arms and a joy to paint.
It was a lot easier and much faster to do on the iPad! There was also much less cleaning up to do.
(For you #fp13 folk, there is some orange in the feathers.)

Original also by Augustus John. He did several quick sketches like this on paper. The NPG (UK), All Souls College & Harvard have them. I sought permission to borrow the NPG work, but they said "it needed a rest". I saw the work at All Souls, but could not verify it was an original at the time. (It is.) It was too difficult to borrow the work from Harvard and I left it too late to ask. I love these sketches because they are so simple, yet say so much about Lawrence. John was a gifted artist.
I did this very quickly using Adobe Ideas.

I borrowed the original by Augustus John from the Tate for an exhibition I curated about 5-6 years ago. He painted the original at the Paris Peace Conference after the First World War.
I reproduced this version at home in Camperdown after swim coaching one Saturday morning. Much less salubrious.