The Fry Youngsters

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Jim, it turned out nicely.

I find your choice of background rather interesting. Most portraits I have seen keep the background rather simple, but you have juxtaposed a busy background with a formal kids pose, thereby adding an element of movement in an otherwise quiet environment.

[Jim Riley]

Here are closeups of the frys.

Garth, I am 35 miles or so from Reading and though I have driven the route many times I never timed the drive. My guess would be 40 minutes.

The revised vase came from the Boit painting when existing funiture didn't suffice.

[Claudemir Bonfim]

A very beautiful work,

thanks for posting it.

[Linda Brandon]

Jim, this is really beautiful! Can you post some closeups of the background, too?

[Richard Monro]

Jim,
Nicely done. I loved how you worked some of your edges and the boldness of your brush strokes.

[Jim Riley]

Linda,

Here are several examples of the background as well a shirt detail. Unfortunately the many reflections caused by the brush and pallette knife applications required a lot of digital corrections and value balance suffered a bit.

[Mary Sparrow]

Just beautiful. Thank you for the closeups. I am getting ready to do a threesome, so this was a timely portrait for me.

I'm curious though, did you luck out and get a good reference of all three, or did you have to pull from different photos?