thanks, lori. things just weren't going smoothly in lascaux and got tired of it..so took them out and called it an end. how you? :)

oh ok... Well besides all these old lady aches and pains I'm not too bad, you?

amazing

wow

very good

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.ಠ_ರೃ Good day sir.

hahaha nice :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbnqmZYew4Y

I love this one. Gorgeous and so well done.

whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. whoawhoawhoa. impressive on two counts..

one: its very 'painterly' yet nice and crisp, a style i admire.
two: the small details are fabulous. using a photo ref the camera picks up so much more that we cant paint on canvas or it will look off. congrats on getting that perfect amount of contrast to insinuate all the details in the photo.

The tree line above his wings annoys me quite a lot. But for the rest I really like this.

This is amazing! Too lovely for words!:))

There was no grainy texture in the photo it was black and white, I just pissed about with it.

well well well. you can stop at short of perfect..amazing. my favorite thing you've ever drawn right here.

You got talent :)

the fabric is so fabrikee!! I keep coming back to this. So well drawn and perfect colors.

i remember being impressed with this a year ago. only a year ago? seems longer.

wonderful light, as always..

way to go. :)

Very nice.

lovely, i like their faces so much.

The whole drawing is awesome :)

Love this!

clavicle ear fingers almost sounds like some kind of fancy appetizer

it's that lady again isn't it?

lol
No, Lori, this time it's from a ref photo of an actual person. Er, former person. No longer living type.

I've been meaning to comment on this since I saw it some time after you first posted it, didn't do it just then and since have been too lazy to go looking for it when I was here, which isn't often anymore. Just now as it came up in the Showcase thumbnail strip I realized if I didn't do it now, I might never. You know I've always hated you because I'm so jealous of your talent, and loved you because you're so very real, which is rare. (and because you always inspired me to strive to do better)
This, I believe, is one of your best paintings, because as a self-portrait I see in that expression the Staci I think I've come to know and love/hate here. ;) Along with being absolutely perfect realism, you've done the impossible "capture the expression" thing... something that almost NEVER happens in a portrait. There's depth in those eyes, something fascinating behind them. Some people see that in the Mona Lisa and say that's why it's so upheld. (One major difference there is that I think she's ugly and you're beautiful, so... ONEUP on that one for sure... hah)

I've looked at this a lot of times and been blown away every time. I just now realized what I like about it most, the way you slightly exaggerated the things a camera does when the shot is a little overexposed and the flash is causing it. How the light shows the details in the skin in a way normal vision would never pick up on. And the corona of color around the iris. And the way the hues of the skin tones are uniformly off. It's a great painting of a 'bad' photograph. That and the killer cupid's bow mouth.

yes! you totally get it. this is a HORRIBLE picture, horrible. Bags, blotchy skin and all. if I had a zit that day I would have drawn it in as well. thanks!