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Christy Talbott · 10-08-2007, 04:16 PM

Sharon,

It's a vision! It's so different than most traditional portraiture..... so very lovely and memorable!

Christy

Alexandra Tyng · 10-08-2007, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Christy Talbott

It's a vision!

I agree--and she looks like she's about to walk right out of the vision toward the viewer. I love the juxapposition of the very realistic, convincing illusion (wow, those skin tones! the translucent blouse!) and the dreamlike, visionary quality of the space she occupies. She is so alive, so much a teenager of today that there will never be any mistaking the time period in which you painted this. Your dreamlike space is also convincing, but thankfully not sweet and sentimental. It is simple and strong. I'm very, very impressed by how you pulled this off, Sharon!

Thomasin Dewhurst · 10-08-2007, 07:54 PM

It's lovely, Sharon. It looks so effortlessly done, and it is so beautifully composed. There is such a clarity of light and colour, it has such an elegance to it, and there is such good depth to the space. Very nice work indeed!

Enzie Shahmiri · 10-09-2007, 10:27 AM

No wonder you were having trouble with that blouse! It turned out beautiful though and the whole painting reminds me of a 20th century adaptation of a 18th century painting by Thomas Gainsborough "Blue Boy". So alive and glowing with color. Very nice!

Mischa Milosevic · 10-09-2007, 04:40 PM

Sharon, another sincere congrats. I love the way you have incorporated your favorite colors. Makes for a grate painting. Grate control in color/value.

My sincere and all the best to you

Sharon Knettell · 10-09-2007, 05:02 PM

Mischa,

Thank-you for the compliments on the color. I added wax medium to the subsequent layers of the blue. It makes the paint layers quite translucent and lovely.

Enzie,

How prescient of you! I had both Gainsborough's "Blue Boy" And Lawrence's "Pinkie" on my computer to refer to. They were in fact my inspirations. The painting is now as we speak in a lovely 18th Beacon Hill town House in Boston.

Carlos Ygoa · 10-09-2007, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell

. I added wax medium to the subsequent layers of the blue. It makes the paint layers quite translucent and lovely

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Now I see.

Thanks.

Allan Rahbek · 10-10-2007, 06:29 PM

Sharon,
They say that every painting is a self portrait. When seeing it in the golden frame I see that it is right, she's your inner rococo girl in blue jeans. I like it.

I have also used the wax medium, I made it my self by heating linseed oil, litharge and beeswax.

Allan Rahbek · 10-10-2007, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell

I am glad you like it Allan.

I was rather timid about using the wax, but as it has so many possibilities I will keep experimenting with it.

My recipe is called The Rubens Medium.

Michele Rushworth · 10-11-2007, 10:57 PM

Just beautiful, Sharon, and very "Pinkie"!

I've enjoyed seeing the work in progress and now your masterful finish. Thanks for sharing it all with us.