Just finished this portrait

[Bianca Berends]

It has been a while that I posted on this forum. Been working hard, lots of commissions, so that is great. It is the first time that I am almost fully booked for the coming year! This is a portrait I just finished, she is a wonderful woman, 85 years old and a well-known artist in the Netherlands, she makes wonderful bronze sculptures of children. She still works, although it is not always easy.

It is oil on canvas and 40 x 50 cm.

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Bianca, she has a wonderful expressive face. Good to hear you are booked up

[Bianca Berends]

Thanks Enzie!

[Chris Saper]

I'm also very thrilled to hear of your success.

I really love the portrait you've posted, it has a warm and approachable feel, and I think she is a woman I'd like to have coffee with.She reminds me a great deal of my neighbor, who is competent, bright, funny, and also a recent widow. Sometimes it can be that familiar, visceral response that grabs the viewer.

[Bianca Berends]

Dear Chris, thanks so much for your reply! Yes she is very nice, but also very strong willed!

[Alexandra Tyng]

Bianca,

It looks like you enjoyed painting her, You really captured the light in her eyes and the strong bone structure of her face. I get a definite impression of her character and what it might feel like to be actually talking to her.