Update
 

This piece (and a little still-life) were accepted into a regional juried art show (multi-media/all sorts of styles...). To be fair, I suspect the 'region' in this case is generally the surrounding towns. . . but still it's a first for me to have paintings displayed in public. :cool: Fun!

Terri,

WOW! and Ditto on everyone's remarks about how engaging, three dimentional, beautiful this painting is. It is very moving, the energy between father and child is felt. And she is ADORABLE - you did a magnificent job on her. My very favorite of yours to date!!!!

YOU spur me on and give me hope that I can integrate all I've read and seen here on the forum too.

Now, I can't wait to get to my studio!!!

Congratulations on getting two pieces in the show. Enjoy the publicity - I look forward to hearing about the positive responses you will get from showing this beautiful little gem!

One technical question: the background reads very dark on my screen. Can you tell me how dark it actually is and what colors were used on the background?? Thanks.

Congratulations Terri - good for you! Make sure you tell us about the award you are sure to get.

Oh My!
 

Terri, I just found this. What a neat composition. Two is a tough number to compose with and you've done as good a job as I've seen. I'm blown away by the originality. It's warm and well painted too.

No Awards...
 

Thanks for the vote of confidence Kim... but no awards on this one! The jurying's done... nothing that was at all realistic won any of the awards. :bewildere That's all I'll say about it.

Pat thanks! The background is a deep burgundy (dark but not black and some areas are darker than others) ... think dark burgundy leather like a couch (which is what was behind them). If you look along the edges where the shirt meets the background you can get a read on the color. I don't remember exactly how I mixed it... but it's likely that it included Gamblin's 'Brown-Pink', Ultramarine blue, Venetian Red, possibly some permanent rose and maybe a touch of gold Ochre... but I'm guessing at these last couple... pretty sure there was no white :) !

Tim, so glad you like it--Thanks!

Hi Terri,

I'm glad this came up again, I missed commenting on it before. As many others have said, I love this!

Jean

Thanks Jean! :)

Sorry to hear this, Terri. Pearls before swine...

BOOOO :! to that jury!

Coming in late on this one still doesn't mean I can't say WOW! I love the little girl's expression. The value compression in the foreshortened daddy's face must have been tough, but you pulled it off without a hitch!

Since I am (relatively) new to this forum, I have't had the chance to follow your progress from work to work... so I went back and looked ;) - hope you don't mind my snooping! Well, I concur with all here re: the great leaps and bounds. The resources you cited for information and inspiration are all wonderful tools, and I, too have benefitted from them.

Looking forward to the next one!

Michele, Rob --Thanks! Thought the jury actually did a pretty good job of representing a wide variety of works in the overall exhibit. The show was open to all art/all media/all styles. (I think approx. 80 pieces were included.) When they posted who the jury would be, I tried to look up their work on the web to get a sense of their stylistic preferences (maybe wrongly, but assuming that they'd prefer works similar to their own). Was only able to find works of one jurist... it was fairly modernistic (I'm not versed enough in all the different styles to know if there's a specific name for the style. . .) So was just happy to be included in the show, for that little bit of visibility.

Rob, with regard to the value compression in the Dad's face, that was by design rather than in the reference. The original plan was a portrait of the little girl. Had gotten a little series of interactive shots when the father came in and scooped up the little girl. Started this painting of the Dad and daughter on a whim and at the last minute to have something portrait-like to enter in the show (with the family's permission). This piece wasn't intended for the family, originally, I'd planned to use it as a sample piece. That gave me a lot of freedom in painting it. I wanted the focus to be on the little girl so pushed back the lights on the dad's face and shirt where they were behind/left of her. It turned out the family liked this one so much it became the commission. (So I'll need to paint another sample piece.) Actually spent a lot of time on the girl's face, and finished the Dad's real quick, just at the end. You can see a WIP progression here (you'll need to scroll down for the WIP... )