Holiday homework
 

Hi all !
It's been a while since I post something...
As I stoped going to the open studio this summer, I decided to make portraits of family members each time I could. So here are the results:

- my daughter, watercolor.
-a 10 years old niece, oil.
-my aunt, charcoal.

My daugter, two more times, charcoal.

And back to the regular open studio!

Marina, these are wonderful! I am so impressed with all your hard work. Your skills are growing by leaps and bounds! I am especially fond of the ones of your daughter.

Just great Marina!

The profile of you daughter is especially lovely.

What fun.

Brava!!

It's great to see these Marina - and must say I very much agree with Sharon - your pictures of your daughter are especially captivating. I really like the way you have described her intent expression in the 2nd charcoal and what a charming profile in the 3rd!

Actually I am really caught by a fascinating detail you made in the second, showing the displacement of her cheek bone through her glasses... it's rather set me off thinking about the nature of observation (what we see versus what we know etc) hmmm interesting stuff all round - thank you!

Alex, Sharon, Chris, Mary Jane : thank you!
I must admit that the profile of my daughter is my very favorite of what I did this summer too... Maybe it's because a profile is a bit easier than a 3/4 view, so I had time to add artistic emotion, and not concentrate only to draw things right...
Yes, she has very thick glasses which distort a lot. I hate drawing them, but it's a part of her, I can't ignore them. Her glasses are generally falling on her nose, so I can see half of her eyes at the right size, and the other half, very reduced, and the outline of the cheek bone displaced. All this on a moving little subject! It's always a challenge to catch her glare.

These are really lovely. How nice your daughter sits for you. I love how her personality shows through in these portraits. I too like that profile the best.
You have a sensitive eye and hand. Thank you for sharing these.

Dianne

Marina,
Thanks for sharing all of these! There is something about that profile of your daughter that is really quite charming. Perhaps it is that you seem to have caught her sort of unawares. The only way mine will 'pose' for me now is if they're busy doing something else and don't realize I'm drawing them. ;)

Thanks Terri,
in fact, she was watching television and I asked her to sit more or less in the same position. Sometimes, she was coming to see what I was doing, and saying " not bad, mom..." She sat still one hour, but it was the last time, now, when I propose her to watch television, she answers " yes, but you don't draw me!" :(
(The funny thing is now, she makes her friends pose for her!)

Hi Marina,

Immitating mommy, how sweet.

I really admire your work. They are all very beautiful and sensitive, something I am hoping to see in my work now. Thank you for showing them. :)

Donna

I particularly like the rear profile pose of the young man. What an interesting composition!

Thank you Donna,
enjoy the moment, when you are working, and something will appear...

Hi, Michele,
the model was completely backlight from where I was, so I turned around until my eyes told me that there was something interresting to develop.