Portrait by the water

[Debra Jones]

The boy is wonderful, but above all the mood here is marvelous. I love that light. I love that weather, the evening rolling dark clouds with long low light. I crave it and you satisfied me. A pleasure to watch.
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[Carol Norton]

Julie, I am completely charmed by your painting! I admire every part of it, from his expression to your style. The parents of the child have a real gem!

[Debra Rexroat]

This is one of the most intelligent and unsentimental children's portraits I have seen. You have allowed a glimpse of a future "emerging adult" while at the present depicting the boy. Bravo! Love it!

[Tom Edgerton]

Terrific, Julie!

Great feeling for the light. I'm with the other folks...I think this is one of your best.

--TE

[Patricia Joyce]

Your painting in process ws eye opening for me and breathtaking even in it's earliest stages. I knew this would be your best work to date. I wish I coud see the finished papinting in person, but Julie, it is really beautiful. I, too, love your palette, how everything works so well together, the boy against a beautiful landscape which you had to compose from a so-so image. The landscape is beautiful but in now way detracts from the subject.