28.0 x 28.0 cm
Pen and ink and pencil on paper
Initialled lower right

This unfinished pen drawing shows how Norman worked first in pencil and then in pen. William Henry Shaw was the model for the central figure.

Norman was predominantly a black-and-white artist and illustrator until he was thirty-five. For the rest of his life his control of the pen was so sure that he could put in details without previously having pencilled them in.

Picnic illustrates one of Norman's earlier methods of working in pen and ink. First he drew a rough pencil outline onto the page and then worked it over in pen, usually from the top.

Reproduced
Norman Lindsay: Impulse to Draw, 1984, p.156
Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawing, 2006, p.217

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