Hello from North Carolina!
 

I'm so glad to be a part of this forum! I am a graphic artist / illustrator that has recently rediscovered a passion for oil painting, portraiture in particular. In the past year I have committed to learn and paint as much as possible and have been fortunate to get connected with a group of artists in our community that is dedicated to working from life. Attached is a recent piece I painted in one of these open studios, along with a recent portrait of a friend's son.

I am looking forward to participating in this forum and am quite frankly in awe of the talent represented here. I have learned much from reading your posts.

I am also very excited to attend this weekend's PSOA Conference and meeting some of you face to face. I hope I can take it all in!

Hi there.

Welcome to the forum. Your work is beautiful.

Yum, and welcome!

Thank you Claudemir and Chris!

Nice work, Suellen. It's nice to meet you.

Thanks Thomasin. Nice to meet you too!

Hi Suellen! Welcome. :) Very nice work!

Thanks Mary! Nice to meet you!

I'm not too far from you, I'm in Shelby, just west of Charlotte.

My grandparents used to live in Shelby and I visited there many times when I was growing up. It's a nice town and I miss visiting there.

Suellen, welcome to the Forum! I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Glad you're on board...you'll learn a lot from all these guys.

--T

Thanks for the welcome. I'm looking forward to participating and learning much!

Welcome Suellen!

I suppose we all unknowingly crossed paths at the PSOA Conference! Did you get introduced to any here on this Forum?

Garth

I did get to meet a few members of the Forum at PSOA and was able to sit in on some of the sessions where some members were presenters, which were very informative!

Hi Suellen, many portraitists have an illustration background, including myself !
Nice to see your work, I hope you will post more
Ilaria

Thanks Ilaria! I hope to post some more work soon.