Alexandra 29 mos
 

I haven't done a drawing in a long time. I sketch my granddaughter all the time, but this is from one of my photos I took as she was sitting under a skylight in a room of windows. I just love the light on her face, and her expression.

Thanks for looking...

Patty , your granddaughter is super cute and it is interesting how you have captured a rather intense look of her. Very nice!

Sweet portrait Patty! :) They don't always have to be smiling, do they? Your granddaughter is a very pretty girl.

What a beautiful little drawing. She will treasure this.

Patty, the light is exquisite! I love the whole thing.

Wonderful!

Wow, Patty! Beautifully beautifully done. Would you mind posting a closeup so we can look at the lines you use?

Enzie - she is intense and can speak volumes with her expressions which what I tried to capture in the drawing. I can't wait to paint her.

Thanks Christy, Mary, Alexandra, David and Julie. She will definately be drawn and painted many times over her life, if I have anything to say! I will try to post a close-up. My technique was very fine washes of graphite using 2H then 2B, some charcoal for the darkest darks, and in the end I go over it all with a fine 2H wash. Her face is so soft I wanted to try to capture that and still get the range of values.

I love your technique, Patty. And that little tooth on the lip is just precious!

Thanks, Julie, for noticing! You know how one slight mark can change the look totally. I am happy with the teeth and mouth...

What an exquisite drawing, Patricia!
Everything about it is perfect....it

Wow, thank you Carlos. I do believe it is so much easier to draw/paint someone you see every day. I believe, as portrait artists we are ALWAYS studying the face, how the light falls on it, the turn of a check, the curve of a nose. I just wish I could draw as fast as what would be necessary to do one of Alexandra as she goes about her day. Seems every moment is a look I keenly wish to capture!

Patty,
you'r a natural. Your drawing is so alive and you have a fine sense for variation of the drawing marks.
Doesn't she look like her grandmother?

Hi Patty
I'm about to start a portrait of one of my two granddaughters .I can only hope it comes out half as well as this one.

Thanks, Allan and Dan. Dan I will look forward to seeing your drawing. I'm sure it will be beautiful. I work painstakingly slow with light washes of graphite till I feel that I am actually creating real skin, flesh, eyeballs, it's my zen of drawing and I love going there. Let's hope painting will do the same for me!

Allan, a woman who has only meet me a few times saw my granddaughter at a party and when Alex laughed remarked that she looked so much like me. In truth, she has my nose and crinkles into a grin the same way I did at her age, but she has the breathless beauty of her mother's eyes and my son's dimpled chin (in guys it a cleft, I guess). I think she has the best of all of us, but then I am partial :)

Beautiful and sensitive, with a deft touch.

Thank you, Tom!