Portrait Society announces Children's Portrait Competition winners
 

Congratulations to the winners. They are now posted on the Society's home page: www.portraitsociety.org. Those who are members of this Forum or the SOG web site follow. We'd love it if you posted an image of the winning portrait.

Third Place
Mark Lovett

Finalists
Leila Ashton
John Ennis
Patricia McWilliams
Alexandra Tyng

Honorable Mention
Kevin Roeckl

Congratulations! I can't wait to see the paintings.

Me too!!!!
Congratulations to all.

Congratulations! Would any of you consider posting your pictures since the society is slow in posting them?

Pictures! Pictures !
Oooops, congratulations...

3rd Place Portrait Society-Madelyn-24x36 oil
 

Thanks to Cynthia I have a much better picture posted now.

Mark,

That's a lovely portrait. Do you not have a good photograph of it or are you just having a scanning problem?

John Ennis asked me to post his portrait since he's not a registered member.

Honorable Mention, Portrait Society Children's portrait competition
 

Hello everybody,

I've been a SOG member since May 2006, but never got around to introducing myself on the Forum. (I just recently got hi-speed internet, so life is good now!) :)

Anyway, this is a nice introduction! This was the first portrait competition I have entered, although I have been a full time professional for about 30 years. (An overview of my - rather varied - Fine Art career can be seen on the bio page of my website, as I know this subject more properly belongs in the New Member Introductions section.) So without further ado, here is the portrait that was awarded Honorable Mention. Details of the fabric and expression on the girl's face can be better seen here: http://kevinportraits.com/custom/faith.html

There is an interesting explanation about what is being depicted in this portrait, if anybody is interested I will post that. This is my first post on the Forum so I hope I did everything right.

Thanks, everyone! Welcome, Kevin, and congratulations to you and all the other artists who won! This came as a big surprise to me, since the deadline for notifying winners had come and gone. The other day I got a call from John Ennis, who of course was another of the finalists, and I had no idea what he was talking about!

My entry was the portrait of George, which can be seen in the "Unveilings" section, but I'll post it again here.