Arianna and Taylor

[Chris Kolupski]

Garth, love the fidgity pose and the downcast eyes. Daring to do a double portrait with averted eyes. Excellent feel for nuanced expressions, as opposed to standard neutral and bland "posed" look. Nice rendering of values within narrow range of indirect light. Love your work.
Chris Kolupski

[Garth Herrick]

Wow, Chris; you just made my day. I have been painting another pair of heads today, and it has been challenging. I think you've expressed enough good thoughts here to encourage me the rest of the way. Thanks! All the best to you.

Michele, Thanks for thew congrats; you deserve quite a few yourself!

Happy Holidays and Season's Greetings to All!

Garth

[Alexandra Tyng]

Garth, I missed the part of this thread where you said someone wanted to commission you to paint a copy of Arianna and Taylor! This is amazing! Well...on second thought, maybe not quite amazing knowing the way these things happen to you, but excellent news nonetheless. I hope you let us know what happens.

It's a beautiful painting and it attracted a lot of attention at the Wayne Art Center show. Lots of people were commenting on the white of the dresses. They also loved the way the one girl is trying on a larger shoe, and that they are not looking straight at the viewer, but engaged in an activity together.