Linda,

Beautiful work. This is one of my favorite paintings that I have seen posted on this forum. Natural, realistic flesh tones and nice brush-work.

Linda,
My, my, you have been busy doing really exceptional work lately Linda. This is gorgeous. Your brushwork remains fresh and alive, and yet you have kept everything well within it's place. I see you have paid extra attention to form turning edgework. Many Kudos my friend, I love it! I whish I was there to see it for real.

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Linda,

This is painted beautifully. I particularly like her direct, confident gaze. She will be a real attention-getter, wherever the painting is hung.

Linda,

This is a beautiful portrait. The background works perfectly and I like the expressive brush work.

No doubt your family holds you up as a goddess and constantly asks if they can refill your beverage glass.

Mike, I wish there were an icon on the right of this reply box for "Head on Keyboard, Weeping With Laughter".

I feel that I'm getting undue credit here for the beauty of my sitter. I've decided that I'm only going to paint gorgeous young girls from now on.

Claudemir, this painting started out in a vertical format and was supposed to be painted solely from life, two hour sessions every day. But by the end of the second week I had turned it horizontally (all those verticals seemed too much for a vertical format) and took photos of the sitter to finish the painting. (Sigh!) I had considered putting some flowers or a plant behind the chair but I thought it might add too much sentimentality to what I wanted to be a direct and intense portrait.

Linda,

I always love looking at your work and am not sure I've ever told you so! This is lovely, and the colors are absolutely beautiful - rendering of her face is soft and just a beautiful painting!!

Thanks for posting it!

Denise

Another beautiful piece, Linda. I would love to see it in person, I envy Chris (maybe someday).

Jean

Maybe someday we'll all get to see it in person. Linda you should enter it into the Portrait Society of America show. When it wins we can all go see it!

This is beautiful Linda! As my daughter would say: "You rock!"

I still have yet to try my ABS - it's sitting there sanded, but still in huge sheets. I just ordered a tiny bit of Maroger for the first time the other day. I'd like to hear actual amounts used on canvas. For example - do you put a drop in each pile of paint? Or only use it for certain effects? Then after you answer those questions - what about on ABS?