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Portrait Highlight - Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Duleep Singh - Prominent Suffragette
Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Duleep Singh (1876 - 1948) Prominent suffragette and campaigner for women's rights, daughter of the exiled...

Amy Hood
Aug 8, 20218 min read


Portrait Highlight - Ida B Wells American journalist, educator and civil rights leader
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862 – 1931) American investigative journalist, educator, & an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was...

Amy Hood
Jul 16, 202112 min read


Portrait Highlight - Emmeline Pankhurst Political activist, founder & leader of the WSPU
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 – 1928) British political activist and founder and leader of the British suffragette movement (WSPU) Emmeline...

Amy Hood
Jul 15, 202112 min read


Portrait Highlight - Millicent Fawcett - British feminist & suffragist, political and union leader
Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929) British feminist and suffragist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. Millicent was born...

Amy Hood
Jun 11, 20216 min read


Portrait Highlight - Sarah Parker Remond - African American abolitionist, lecturer & physician
Sarah Parker Remond (1826 - 1894) African American slavery abolitionist, lecturer and physician. Born free in Salem, Massachusetts to...

Amy Hood
Jun 6, 20218 min read


Spring Book Round-up
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that there haven't been any book reviews since the end of February, the main reason being I...

Amy Hood
May 31, 20218 min read


Portrait Highlight - Wu Chien-Shiung - Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist
Wu Chien-Shiung (吳健雄; May 31st, 1912 – February 16th, 1997) was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made...

Amy Hood
May 31, 20219 min read


Lindy Hop Portrait Highlight - Frankie Manning - American dancer, instructor, and choreographer
Frank Manning (May 26, 1914 – April 27, 2009) was an American dancer, instructor, and choreographer. He was one of the prime creators of...

Amy Hood
May 26, 20214 min read


Portrait Highlight - Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia - campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand
Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia (22 May 1868 – 10 October 1920) was a campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand, a suffragist who inspired...

Amy Hood
May 22, 20214 min read


Portrait Highlight - Ichikawa Fusae - Japanese feminist, politician and women's suffrage leader
Ichikawa Fusae (市川 房枝, May 15, 1893 – February 11, 1981) was a Japanese feminist, politician and a leader of the women's suffrage...

Amy Hood
May 15, 202110 min read


Portrait Highlight - Sylvia Pankhurst - English artist, suffragette, and anti-fascist activist
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1882 - 1960) English artist, campaigner for the suffragette movement, prominent left communist and anti-fascist...

Amy Hood
May 5, 20216 min read


Portrait Highlight - Mary Wollstonecraft - English writer, philosopher, advocate of women’s rights
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797) English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. Mary was born to Elizabeth Dixon and...

Amy Hood
Apr 27, 202110 min read


Portrait Highlight - Ella Fitzgerald - American jazz and swing singer
Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996) American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella. She...

Amy Hood
Apr 25, 20217 min read


Good Rockin' Tonight - Creating Colour - Part 2
Hello and welcome back folks! In the previous post I began explaining how I go about drawing one of my illustrations; reference photos,...

Amy Hood
Apr 22, 20214 min read


Good Rockin' Tonight - Creating Colour - Part 1
Though I do try to share step-by-step naratives on Instagram, I thought, for a change, it might be fun to break the process down even...

Amy Hood
Apr 15, 20216 min read


Portrait Highlight - Billie Holiday - American jazz and swing singer
Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959) [Eleanora Fagan] was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music...

Amy Hood
Apr 7, 20215 min read


Portrait Highlight - Aretha Franklin - American singer, actress, and civil rights activist
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, and civil rights...

Amy Hood
Mar 25, 20215 min read


Portrait Highlight - Vera Lynn - English singer, songwriter and entertainer
Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (1917 – 2020) was an English singer, songwriter and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were...

Amy Hood
Mar 20, 20215 min read


Portrait Highlight - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) American lawyer and jurist, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the...

Amy Hood
Mar 15, 20215 min read


Women's History Month 2021
As you may have gathered, I like drawing portraits of women. I rarely draw a male portrait, not because I have anything against men, but...

Amy Hood
Mar 9, 202113 min read
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