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Congratulations, Pamela! It's nice to see your work here, and especially nice to hear of your award! I am sorry to her that your son has had to go through such an ordeal.
The judges were so right to say the portrait is without gimmicks, and I am thrilled that they valued this quality enough to award you the top prize. Too often I see portraits painted by highly skilled artists that leave me cold because the subject is intentionally "on show." Maybe the subject is meant to symbolize something, or maybe the portrait expresses an attitude or a fantasy. The result is a display of skill without connection to the subject. Yours does not have a show-off-y quality. Its beauty lies in its directness. You communicate your emotional connection to the viewer very successfully. It is hard to look away from his eyes, they are so real and say so much!
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