Thursday, December 18, 2008

Portrait Progress

Many, many hours; still so far to go! But here is my progress thus far. She is moving from meek and mild to wild child, don't you think? It's the hair. When I first met her, she was sitting with a window behind her and her hair was aglow around her head, like a golden aura or halo. I wanted to have some of that here, even though the light is from the side. I've had to start on the necklace because the hair's in front of it. I was trying to finish the face in one day so I started early and worked feverishly till 4 a.m. I got to a good stopping place but it's not finished. Now I work somewhere else while this face dries enough to come back to it.

4 comments:

  1. Kim You are doing a great job on this. I am finding out just how hard portrait work is. Looks great!

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  2. She is looking wonderful, very inspiring seeing the evolving character. And reading of your work ethic puts me to shame!!

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  3. She is really coming alive, the necklace looks like it will be a fun distraction. Thank you for sharing your progress and thoughs as you move through the process.

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  4. Thank you so much for your encouragement; all I see right now is what needs to be fixed! It's very hard to just post and not "explain."

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