Garden portrait

Alexandra Tyng · 03-17-2007, 10:27 AM

Cindy,

Your clients should be really happy with this. I especially like the way you've shown the relationship between the two brothers, and the distance in the garden (green/violet color and less detail--very atmospheric).

Thomasin Dewhurst · 03-17-2007, 12:51 PM

That it is technically very good goes without saying, Cindy, but I especially like the sensitivity and honesty with which you have done the faces.

Cindy Procious · 03-17-2007, 02:18 PM

Thank you all for your nice comments on my picture. I struggled over this background for quite a while - when I took the photos the black-eyed susans were all dead, so I had to cobble together references. The difficulty then became making it all into a cohesive whole. It gave me many sleepless nights.

Anyway - here's a couple of details of their faces.

Cindy Procious · 03-17-2007, 02:19 PM

The other one...

Julie Deane · 03-18-2007, 08:55 AM

Thanks so much for posting these closeups, Cindy. Very nice! I especially love how that light falls on their hair.

Chris Saper · 03-18-2007, 03:04 PM

Very well handled, Cindy! It is so very difficult to paint natural looking smiles, especially with teeth - very, very nice!

Cindy Procious · 03-20-2007, 08:29 AM

Thanks very much, Chris and Julie.

I'll be restretching this week - I'll report back how it goes in case anyone is interested.

Cindy Procious · 04-19-2007, 10:08 AM

Update on restretching -

All the horrible things I feared (cracking paint, canvas tearing, spontaneous combustion) did not come to pass. It was a piece of cake.

I wound up taking off an inch from the top, in order to better place them in the picture plane - so in the end, I'm glad I did have to tackle this project.