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Three children portrait
Hi Mary,
I'm sorry that I found this thread so late. I wasn't on the forum for a while for personal reasons but I'm back now.
How is this portrait coming? I did a search for posts by you and didn't find a finished portrait of your three children so I was just wondering how it was going, and I had an idea for you.
I have a friend who had her four children painted. She had a portrait artist come down from Dallas (we're in Houston) and I wish I knew who is was, I'll have to ask her. Well, she had each child done on a separate canvas. Her kids range in ages from 5 to17 and the 5 year old's full figure was painted. The other three were 3/4 or even less. Each was done on the same size canvas, tall and skinny, about 30" tall by 15" wide. She had them all on her mantle last time I saw them, not even framed, but they were done on heavy stretchers or museum canvas, whatever they call it when the stretchers are thick.
I thought it was an interesting idea because they all worked well together yet each child had his or her own canvas. And of course you could do whatever was most characteristic of each child without worrying about how one child relates to the other (in size anyway).
These portraits I'm talking about were oil and I think you work mostly in pastel. I don't see why it couldn't work for pastel too. I'm sure you've thought about doing 3 separate portraits but I just wanted to share this idea.
Now I'm going back to read some of your other interesting topic starters!
Joan
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