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Thank-you, Alex, for your confidence in my work, and your positive comments.
It took me a while to get round to searching for a photo of myself and my father that looked similar in pose. I didn't have many, but here are two that give you some idea.
Yes, I look much more like my father than my mother, and my brother the opposite and, come to think of it, this happens to a lot of people I know. Very interesting. Slightly astray from the point, do you find that your portraits of other people look like you or have a feeling of you in them?
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To everyone else - please feel free to be honest. I think to get anywhere really, one has to receive the negative feedback as well as the positive. I, for one, think that the ugliness of the face in "Animated Self-portrait" is quite off-putting, and I wish that I could paint people who were prettier, more appealing. And the shadows and modeling look, to me now that I have been away from the painting for a month or two, more like burn scars than moving skin. This was an experiment and I took from it what worked - the colour in the shadow and the drawing with paint - and left the rest.
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