Marina,
If your intention is to pull on a grandmother's heartstring, you are successful! She is delicious, and your rendering is so beautiful. Very very sweet.
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Thank you all !
It's so fascinating to watch a child sleeping, the quietness of the room, the funny positions, the emotions going through the face. You can stay hours watching... I was just hoping that this fascination would appear in the drawing also.
Thank you all !
It's so fascinating to watch a child sleeping, the quietness of the room, the funny positions, the emotions going through the face. You can stay hours watching... I was just hoping that this fascination would appear in the drawing also.
It definitely appears in the drawing--it looks like, if somebody were to wake her up at this moment, it would be quite a task!
Impeccable rendering (your usual level) and fantastic foreshortening of that arm! Beautiful!
Good luck also on your workshops. Water gilding is an age-old craft and it is nice to see it being passed down to others so it doesn
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Thank you Enzie and Carlos !
Carlos, yes water gilding is the oldest way of gilding, the most difficult and which certainely gives the most beautiful results. I learned it with a man who was the third generation of gilders in the same family, and their tools, techniques and material hadn't change...
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