Hello Tammy,
Welcome!Nice to meet you. I hope you`ll have a lot of commissions very soon , your paintings are beautiful , thanks for sharing.

Grethe

Hi Tammy,
nice to see your work.. Welcome!

Welcome Tammy!

Thanks for your comprehensive and insightful introduction. Your portraits are stunning and you will really shine here. I look forward to your posts.

I sculpted a rather clunky looking horse compared to those you've illustrated. Fifteen years ago it was billed as the world's largest bronze equestrian monument. In it's current guise, it stands unveiled in Milan, Italy, and is meant to complete the Sforza commission Leonardo da Vinci commenced in the 1480's, but lost uncompleted for five centuries in 1501. There is a glimpse of it here in my intro.

Garth

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

Garth, I love your horse sculpture. You denigrate yourself too much. It is not at all clunky. I think it has marvelous strength and movement. I suspect that had children not come along and stirred a passion for that subject, I would probably be immersed in 3D equestrian at this time. But alas, all the 3D work I got in was some carving in the carousel animal style. That was lots of fun. But, I cannot imagine any subject eclipsing my love for painting children. I hope to be painting them until my last days. :)

I had set aside the next few months to just enjoy painting whatever children's paintings my heart desired before officially taking commissions again. However, my dentist has very generously given all his hygenist and office staff portraits as gifts, so I am now booked up for 10+ commissions via these gift ones and a few of the staff wants more than one. One of the ladies who is ordering beyond the gift ones wants hers completed in time to give as a Mother's Day present. So I have been quite busy to be certain it will be ready by then.

I am tempted to post it as a WIP or critique here in the forum. I am wondering what decisions go into deciding which forum to post it in. Do you post to critique if you want a no holds barred critique or select WIP if you want more moderate assessments and just to share the joy of the process?