I just finished my first commissioned portrait, and it was a stretch!! The difficulty with doing a portrait for someone you know is that it needs to look like them…obviously.
Felder Ann has the most extraordinary eyes. I’m delighted that her parents felt that I captured them in the painting. Unfortunately, the photographs don’t [...]
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This is a ten minute sepia sketch of this same model in preparation for painting. Another ten minute sepia drawing of the model reaching for the chair. This one really captured her profile. This piece was juried into the Georgia Watercolor Exhibition, a national competition. It's been quite a ride getting this framed painting to the gallery as it got lost in transit almost three weeks ago. The postman remembers delivering it, and the receptionist remembers receiving it but nobody knew where it went. Today, I called to see if anyone had found it, and the woman gasped. It was on the wall and nobody knew how it got there! I may never know what happened but it found it's way just in time as the final jurying is next week.ART UPDATES!
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