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Finalist ARC 2010-11 Salon, 3 place award of Merit PSOA 2011, Finalist for the 2011 Kingston Prize, Grand Prize 2006 PSOC, 2012 May cover art winner Professional Artist Magazine
Joined: Oct 2001
Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 49
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Kent,
the painting is very good technically, you paint very well but I find that the relationship between the background and subject very odd. I suggest putting a hint of her "world" around her to make the painting more interesting and more personal. Maybe something relating to her costume? Something more for the viewer to learn about the subject. Painters can put anything they want in their paintings to say something. That is one of the great things about painting.
Portrait painters should NOT think like commercial photographers. If the painting looks like a Sears portrait, then I say what was the point of painting one like it?
I hope I don't sound harsh because I know you can paint a very good portrait, I can see that, I just feel that painters should stay away from painting the "look" of a photograph and to make paintings that look like something more.
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