Thank you all!

In fact, this is the first of a series of 3, in the same frame. The second pannel is already cut and is wainting to be painted ( It will have to wait few months I think) and the third is still at the stage of an idea in my note book... I think that I will try to take the references soon, because it's a long process between several photo sessions, and the finish painting. If I wait too much, I loose a bit my enthousiasm and my interrest for my idea. If I dream it too much, it's as if I already painted it, and so I want to move to the next subject which is still new and exciting...

Alex,
I agree with you. It can be a long process, but when the unification of our differents interrests arrives, it's an interresting moment which justify years of research, questions, try, mistakes...

Wow, Marina this looks great! :) Wonderful work.

Your name is M.D.
A successful C-section! ( in posiositive meaning)

Thanks, Nancy Bea. Nice to see you on the Forum!

Thank you SB.

Wow, fascinating!
Very creative!
Painting outside the box... so to speak!
Tony

Thank you Tony!

Here is another photo I took with a black background. I wanted to get rid of the shadow on the wall, and also it gives a more sparkling look to the frame...

Marina
Simple STUNNING composition and technique. I would love to know your palette for baby and frame. It lookes as though it is mostly all earth colours. I can't stop looking at it. Wow your intuition is certainly very strong. Keep listening to it, I can't wait to see the rest of the series. Are they going to be for a competition?

Thank you Ngaire,
yes my palette is mostly earth colors ( yellow ochre, terra rosa, indian red, raw umber + black and white) and also cad red and ultramarine .I added cad yellow to those colors for the frame.
I found that it was an easier way ( for me) to begin to control skin tones with earth colors, now I quietly experiment with other colors.
It's my goal for this year, to enter in competitions, and hopefully have some results...
But this kind of pieces is generally a bit problematic: lot of people ( even professionals) don't understand what it is exactly when they just see a photo without explanations. Always better to see the real object...

Well put Enzie.

I also have to say I may follow Cindy and break my brushes and join her in that corner.

The only think I can say, other than "Wow" is "I wish I had thought of it."

Keep posting. I LOVE IT!

Janel

I just spotted this one - Marina, you continue to amaze everyone with your technical skill and creative ideas. What a terrific painting! Enter this one in every contest you can find!