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Old 08-12-2003, 12:28 PM   #1
Lisa Gloria
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Nobody's touched on this, so maybe I shouldn't bring it up, but how do you feel about the expression on her face? Most of the portraits I've looked at have an expression of contemplation, sympathy, alertness, or similar. She looks sort of, how do I put this, disgusted? Impatient? Smug? It's hard to describe but not altogether pleasant.

Her eyebrows seem raised, as well as both the corners of her mouth and the center of her lower lip, which doesn't look like a smile but a grimace. She doesn't have braces does she? One of my models has braces, which really distorts her mouth and chin since she tries to cover her teeth with her lips. After braces come off, that's a hard habit to break too.

With 5 daughters, I may be overly sensitive to the facial expressions of young women! But I see this expression my 12-year-old stepdaughter's face a LOT, and it never means anything good.

Sorry if I am out of line bringing it up.
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