I painted this lass and her little green friend back in August, but haven't been able to show them until now. This is the second in a series of ten portraits that I have painted for
The Design Files Open House 2013. The first one is
here. All of the paintings are acrylic on wood and measure around 30 x 40 cm. They will each have a rather spiffy frame too, made by Michael Cleary. Photo
above by the multi talented
Tim Gresham. (How lovely to have my work professionally photographed, for once!)
Bad i-phone shot of my work in progress, above. I always paint the face first. The face is the most important and difficult part as far as I am concerned. If I wreck it and need to start again, there's less collateral damage. More importantly, if I paint the face first, I get to know who I am dealing with, and we decide on the other details together.
6 comments:
Lovely Sandra. There's something very.....eighties covergirl about this painting. Looking forward to the open house pics. good luck! See you soon.
Hi Jo -- thank you very much -- I didn't think of her as being eighties but I love that you do!!! Maybe I have been looking at her for too long to see anything!
Looking forward to your book launch........
Oh it made me gasp! She's so lovely - and I love that you paint her face first and get to know her.
Thank you so much Julianne. I am quite happy with her too -- she is one of my favourites.
She is perfection Sandra. Those eyes and lips! Love the work in progress too. TEN portraits! You have been a busy lady. Can't wait to see them all at DFOH. It's in my diary! xx
Thank you Sass! I am looking forward to hearing what you think. :-)
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