William
 

I've been off the boards for a while, teaching workshops across the country and here in La Crosse, and I'm off to London and Russia in a week, but I just finished this little oil (26" x 34") and thought I'd post it. The work is in oil.

Detail of his head.....

What a wonderful portrait! I most especially like the colors and mood. I'd say that this is a winner. Congratulations Peggy.

A Gem
 

This is a remarkably beautiful portrait. Camille Corot occasionally painted portraits of children, mostly for close friends. Your portrait has the fragile, timeless beauty and grace of those portraits.

S. Bartner

Peggy, it is beautiful and captures a certain innocence.

I like to add it in my next newsletter to SoCal-ASOPA if that

Peggy, this is a beautiful portrait! Very sensitive and delicate. Children are hard to paint, and you've done a wonderful job.

Renee Price

Peggy,

The study for me here is in the background. The placement, the tone and the ever so slight suggestion. Not that the boy isn't wonderful!

Very nice, Peggy!

Tell me, it reads overall a bit red on my monitor. Is this color adjustment more true to the original?

Hi Cynthia,

It looked a bit red on my monitor also. I like the adjustment. This is a beautiful portrait Peggy.

Dan

Thanks for the input. My computer screen is a little wonkie, so I've tried to adjust it for this screen. The image is also off a digital camera, and I have a greater problem seeing color differentiations in the digital than I do on a print.

Thank you all for your kind words. I haven't posted any portraits for quite a while, and it's so very nice to hear your support!

Mike, The background is actually the defining element of the portrait. Before I settled on a background, when I had just William and the chair, it was a very nice child's portrait, but didn't get what I wanted to emphasize. I wanted there to be a sense of scale, the relative smallness of the boy. I also wanted to repeat the "round" theme. Putting an oval frame in the background didn't work, (no "scale"), and linear forms also didn't work. So I came up with the idea of an oversized floor globe. I found an antique globe pencil sharpener, 2x2 inches, and painted that MUCH bigger into the background. Once I had the repeating circles, (Williams head, face, hair, chair, etc., and globe, base and holder, then I was able to play off the vertical shapes, stripped wallpaper and screen.)

I will attempt to scan in slides that I have, the clarity and color might be better than that posted. Thanks again, Cynthia, for looking out for me!

And hello Scott! I don't think I've had a "conversation" with you! Thanks for the comparison to Camille Corot. It is very much appreciated!