Jpegs and thanks
 

Hi everyone,

Finally able to get online - and reply to all your wonderful comments!

Cynthia, I am getting on this compression thing as we speak. Who knows what I may be able to accomplish?

I have taken pics today with my Nikon of the painting in progress, and will take it tomorrow and have a disc made so I can post it for a critique in the Oil critique section. I may have it online by tomorrow night if I get them developed as I plan to.

Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. I worked on the face some more this afternoon after I finally got home from a hard day at the office (classroom) and worked on the window sill, but not the curtain. Her hair is also in disarray but I'm going to post whatever I've got for a critique from you guys if you are still slightly interested.

I will go pour over your suggestions now and read the rest of what is going on in the portrait news today. I have some comments to make about the latest articles in a magazine but will post those in another section!

Take care and enjoy the weekend!

Green skin tones
 

Steven,

Yes, green skin tones are lovely when they are subtle, enhancing the pinks, oranges, reds, etc.. Too much, and your subjects look like Kermit. Exactly whoooo did you study with from the Lack Atelier? I don't take most of them very seriously (as well as a great deal of the Boston School fragments) because they are locked in the past and have not taken their knowledge into the 21st century. Most of them are doing boring pastiches of the past.

Discussion as to whether most of Lack's students and successors are doing boring work would stray too far from this thread's topic. Perhaps it will show up in the Cafe Guerbois area at some point.