How I Made This: CJ Hendry’s Colored Pencil Drawings of Wigs

From a distance, Andrew, a drawing by Australian-born, Brooklyn-based artist CJ Hendry of a bobbed platinum-blond wig, looks like a study in pale golds. Yet the artist used almost no yellow when making the work. Instead, “There’s a lot of brown, a lot of black,” she commented during a recent studio visit. “But you look at the overall piece and it reads as blond.”
Hendry is known for hyperrealist drawings, executed in pen or (since 2017) colored pencil, that she post