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Mary,
This is powerful. I would try to do a portrait with this image. This image is engaging and draws the viewer in to interact with the girl in a very living way. If that is her sister sitting beside her and supporting her, then this image is even all the more powerful. This is a little girl who was full of the love of life and still is in this composition. While the composition is unconventional, it is extremely effective; it has good emotional content, it really sucks the viewer in like a magnet, and there is a built in harmony of cool colors and values to frame the warmth in her face.
This so much reminds me of the posthumous portrait I did of the little boy in 1989, It has the same immediacy and playful engagement (Mary, I wish I knew where that digital file was so I could share it with you). The boy's head was similarly turned (but his torso was facing forward and the composition was vertical instead of horizontal). I invented some playful interaction between the boy's transformer toy and the Izod alligator stitched on his shirt. as if they were about to battle each other in the boy's imagination. It was a fun painting.
Mary, I think you have a powerful image for reference that could make an even more powerful portrait. Go for it!
Garth
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