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Portrait Highlight - Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Duleep Singh - Prominent Suffragette

Aug 8, 20218 min read

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...

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Portrait Highlight - Ida B Wells American journalist, educator and civil rights leader

Amy Hood

Jul 16, 202112 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Emmeline Pankhurst Political activist, founder & leader of the WSPU

Amy Hood

Jul 15, 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Millicent Fawcett - British feminist & suffragist, political and union leader

Amy Hood

Jun 11, 20216 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Sarah Parker Remond - African American abolitionist, lecturer & physician

Amy Hood

Jun 6, 20218 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...

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Amy Hood

May 31, 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Wu Chien-Shiung - Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist

Amy Hood

May 31, 20219 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...

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Lindy Hop Portrait Highlight - Frankie Manning - American dancer, instructor, and choreographer

Amy Hood

May 26, 20214 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia - campaigner for women's suffrage in New Zealand

Amy Hood

May 22, 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Ichikawa Fusae - Japanese feminist, politician and women's suffrage leader

Amy Hood

May 15, 202110 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Sylvia Pankhurst - English artist, suffragette, and anti-fascist activist

Amy Hood

May 5, 20216 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Mary Wollstonecraft - English writer, philosopher, advocate of women’s rights

Amy Hood

Apr 27, 202110 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Ella Fitzgerald - American jazz and swing singer

Amy Hood

Apr 25, 20217 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...

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Good Rockin' Tonight - Creating Colour - Part 2

Amy Hood

Apr 22, 20214 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,...

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Good Rockin' Tonight - Creating Colour - Part 1

Amy Hood

Apr 15, 20216 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Billie Holiday - American jazz and swing singer

Amy Hood

Apr 7, 20215 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Aretha Franklin - American singer, actress, and civil rights activist

Amy Hood

Mar 25, 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Vera Lynn - English singer, songwriter and entertainer

Amy Hood

Mar 20, 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...

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Portrait Highlight - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Amy Hood

Mar 15, 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...

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Amy Hood

Mar 9, 202113 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...

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