Awaiting - background help needed - Page 3

Kimberly Dow · 08-25-2003, 03:16 PM

Thank you all for this feedback. This has helped greatly - especially considering I never wanted to look at her again and now I am eager to get to the studio tomorrow and work on it.

Tim, that painting is great and I am sure you are right. I am going to get that fabric on my back porch and whatever else from her original photo and lug the painting home & just look.

Lisa,

I agree, the tummy is too warm. The earlier phase of the painting I posted was closer to reality - this one has gone back & forth several times. I liked the tummy on my earlier version better.

Kimberly Dow · 08-26-2003, 08:29 PM

Here is what I did today to the paintings. Feel free to comment.

Kimberly Dow · 08-26-2003, 11:56 PM

I had an interesting thing happen today I wanted to share - about this painting.

I've had at least 20 women and a few men come in and ohhh and ahhh over how beautiful this is. Today the local bank Vice President came in. He is looking into investing in framing equipment and putting it in my studio.

So he is standing there by this one on the easel (very conservative Baptist), and his eyes keep looking then quickly looking away. Then he finally points at it without looking and says "This is a very unusual portrait." I started laughing and asked if it made him uncomfortable.

He finally just looked at it for a few minutes without speaking. He asked if it was requested and few other questions and then decided it was beautiful. Then he proceeded to speak to me about a portrait commission for the Bank owner who happens to be one of Texas' past Governor's.

If I had known he was even thinking about that, I would not have had that portrait out, I know how conservative he is.

Kimberly Dow · 08-27-2003, 05:04 PM

I retook my photos of the painting after Cynthia pointed out that it looked so red. This time I took the computer to the studio to compare the painting with the photo on my screen. I think this it truer to the actual painting.

Michele Rushworth · 08-27-2003, 07:53 PM

Does the bank owner have a big belly? Maybe that's why the VP asked you to do the commission of him, after seeing this one! Just joking, of course. I think perhaps this portrait was striking enough to stop the VP in his tracks and your questions got him to really think about it. This is a beautiful painting and perhaps you got the commission because of this portrait, not in spite of it.

I really like what you did with the background, by the way. The whole thing has an archetypal, symbolic Rousseau feeling now.

Kimberly Dow · 08-28-2003, 12:42 AM

Thanks Michele!

I think it's done now. I appreciate all the help provided by everyone. I look forward to posting a very dramatic post someday like yours - what I did before and after. Course since I started with scary "Jake" that should be easy.

My husband kept telling me to take the post out. I can't say how much I HATE it when he is right.

I was thinking of posing the ex-governor wrapped in a pretty cloth with his belly exposed.....or perhaps a little leg poking out.