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Mari,
This painting is going to be 24" x 30". I combine gouche and colored pencils together and I even incorporate a little pastel or india ink as needed. I guess all those years as an illustrator show up in my work. What I did not mention earlier is that this reference photo is actually five photos put together in Photoshop. What the client sees is the positions of the children. The faces or hand positions etc. are a combination of photos. Obviously, this would not be possible for your run-of-the-mill portrait photographer. When there is only one subject it might be easier to get just the right shot, but with four...whew! I had to work for this one!! If anyone wants to see the other pics, I will post them.
My work is very photorealistic so therefore my clients kind of expect it to look alot like the picture. I have had clients tell me though that my work looks more "alive" than the portraits they have made. Hopefully my website will be up by the beginning of October so that ya'll (yeh I'm southern!) can see my past work and my nonportrait work.
By the way while I was there I took some great shots of my two girls in the same setting with long cotton slip dresses on, barefoot! I can't wait to get started on that one.
Rebecca
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