Le Mime

The mime is one of my favourite figures ! It comes from my childhood and my love for Pierrot and white clowns in circus [link] Since there was my fascination for le Mime Marceau [link] and for Baptiste Debureau, a real mime of the XIXth century, played brilliantly by Jean-Louis Barrault in Carné's Les enfants du paradis (Children of paradise, or Children of the gods in english) [link]

I made my drawing with two photo models :

- A photo of the actor Doug Jones by Albert L. Ortega : [link] I love Doug Jones, because as a mime AND as an actor I think he is very talented. His faun of Laberinto del fauno was a masterpiece ! And I would love see him play a "simple" white-face mime. Visit his official website (a very interesting one) : [link]

- A photo of Jean-Louis Barrault as Debureau : [link] He was so great ! And in this movie, he is incredible ! See his mime performance in this video : [link]

I sincerely hope you like this drawing ! It's close to my heart !

PS : my scanner ruined it...

Scrap here : [link]