Friday, August 26, 2011

Got The Paint Brushes Out...

...and finished an old portrait I found in storage. Oil painting is fun!
I've barely been online the last month.

6 comments:

  1. Bee A You Tee Ful. Love the highlight on the right side eye. Subject's left eye.
    The nose highlight, especially as a thumbnail , has the protuberance of a small pimple. Don't know if you want that. Maybe take down the edging on the left side of the highlight.
    Great color. Really alive.

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  2. Beautiful portrait but who is he? Is there a story behind this painting?

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  3. I should clarify--I actually used two different photos as source for the painting--one of the kid, one of the dad.

    But I lost the one of the dad in the intervening years! So I had to wing it on the repaint...Blair's input was critical.

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  4. Good story. I did see the view on Brush Pen, and yet another view on Facebook. You like to tease us with fragments! Is there one of the whole thing?

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  5. Why does it say "Chole-bait" on the Facebook version?

    Chole can refer to:

    Chole (woreda), one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia region of Ethiopia;

    Chole, Ethiopia, a town in that woreda.

    Chole, cooked or uncooked chickpeas

    Chole masala, see chana masala

    Chole-, meaning bile

    Chole or choly, medical slang for
    cholecystitis, or a patient with cholecystitis; also a cholecystectomy

    Chole or Choule, a probable antecedent of the sport of golf; see also kolven

    Chole, nickname for Soledad, California, as used by Chicano gangs

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  6. OOF.

    IT WAS SUPPOSED TO SAY "CHLOE-BAIT."

    For Chloe Cummings, painter of many child portraits, and my Facebook pal.

    Sheesh....

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