Babushka

[Chris Saper]

Dear David,

What a completely beautiful job. Beautiful color and edges, the modeling is really oustanding.

Congratulations on a lovely, successful piece!

[Linda Nelson]

I second everything that's already been said here about your peice. Thank goodness you decided to finish it - it's a an absolute treat to look at.

Linda

[Janet Kimantas]

I read your amazingly self-deprecating intro to this, scrolled down to the painting and said "Holy smokin'" out loud. I am currently completely alone in the house and not given to talking to myself. Holy wow.

[Garth Herrick]

David,

Again, you blow us all away with the most sensitively rendered portraits ever! Can anyone do this almost as well?

You are amazing, not only for your fine talent and technical virtuosity, but that this one pierces the heart with it's emotional content, just as all your works do.

Kudos,

Garth

[Lisa Ober]

David, will you marry me? Oops! I mean, what a spectacularly gorgeous painting! I love it. How great to paint such a beautiful and character-filled face. How great to paint it will such tender attention. How great that I get to see it. How great thou artist. LOL. I made a funny but I am serious as well. You knock me out. I've fallen and I can't get up. Wow-a-google. I read you are a teacher? Please teach me. Hurry.

[David Draime]

Wow, thank you all for the kind and generous comments. It was so nice to wake up this morning to all this response! You've made my day!

Enzie, Like you, I love to render old people's faces. Always such character - I just feed off it. The scarf did take me hours (and hours and hours...). The reference photo showed every little detail in the scarf - all the various patterns, stitches - I realized early on that it was going to be counter-productive to try to render every little detail (it would certainly take away from the face). I tried a more "impressionist" approach with the scarf, and it seemed to work fairly well. Thanks for the kind words!

Brenda, I too would love to have tea with her, buy vegetables together, and then: Take a slew of photos with a better camera and with a controlled lighting situation. What a marvellous face she has.

Linda, I'm glad I finished it. I have a tendency to lose interest in a work before it's completed - I sometimes just get tired of looking at it. But I try to hold fast to my "rule" that if it's worth starting, it's worth finishing. I have to force myself sometimes. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Lisa Ober

David, will you marry me?

Sure!...but I think we should run it by your husband first. (And how many kids did you say you have?)

Luca, Thanks so much. No, sorry, I didn't take photos of the work in progress. I should do that next time.

[Michele Rushworth]

Gorgeous, David! When I opened this thread the first iimage I saw was the middle one, closely cropped, and I thought that was the whole painting.

[Lisa Ober]

Originally Posted by Lisa Ober

Will you marry me?)

Originally Posted by David Draime

Sure!...but I think we should run it by your husband first. (And how many kids did you say you have?

David, great! Just think of the old woman in the shoe and that will give you an idea of what you're getting. That's not a problem is it? I'll pack my stuff today.

Again, this is a stunning pastel. I am so anxious to see what you do in oil that it's scary.

[Luca Vallifuoco]

Hello,
your paint is simply..beautiful..the skin is perfect..she lives.Do you have some photos from work in progress? I think that is important to see the evolution of a paint to take secrets of development.

Bye, luca.

[Mary Sparrow]

MY GOSH David, that is simply stunning, if only I could do the same !