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Baby Steps – Arwen
Every painter has their weaknesses. For some, it’s drawing faces, for others, painting hands. Some people are terrified of the color green, since it seems to be so hard to get it looking realistic and pleasing to the eye. I’ve been painting portraits for about 4 years now, portraits of the living and the dead,…
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Winnie Boothby, a special Grandmother
When I first became involved with my then young husband, he often mentioned his “other grandmother” meaning the one that I could never meet, because she had already died. He told me stories about her, how she liked to go camping, how she treated him like he was special. His favorite story about her was…
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La Baronessa Spiritosa
Thank you everyone for helping me name my last mirror portrait. A friend in Italy, Antonio Borelli came up with “La Baronessa Spiritosa” and I thought it was great. So that’s who she is. I enjoyed everyone’s entries, and they gave me some ideas for the next one.
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Portrait #10 – The fisherman’s wife
One of my favorite authors is Giovanni Verga, who was born in 1860 and died in 1922. He lived in Sicily, in the city of Catania. I was able to visit his house while I was there a few years ago. He wrote about the tragedy and the beauty of the poor working class that…
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Jump like a Comet!
I had to wait to post this because the painting was a surprise and a Christmas present for my nephew’s wonderful wife. It’s the first formal horse portrait I have ever done and it was very exciting to pull it off. This is Comet, who is no longer a teenager, but he has been extremely…