[Garth Herrick]

Dear Claudemir, Julie, Kimberly, Alex, Linda, and Richard,

Thank you all so much for your very kind responses!

Julie, and Alex: Chromatically, this painting fell together like a jigsaw puzzle. Until it was complete, some passages of color looked wildly off target, and yet they weren't really in the context of the whole image. I did scream in terror about some of the colors along the way though.

Hey Alex, your favorite subject, Judge Shapiro, was there, looking as cheerful as ever! I really like her.

The colors here on the Forum can be a little quirky; I'm not sure how to get them right yet, but there is actually better distinction between the reds, and the flesh tones seem more subtle and less golden in life if one were standing in front of the painting. Part of the problem (and this may be common to all of us) is my silly camera does not discern color nuances as well as a pair of eyes. I need to make a better effort to shoot portfolio pictures too, for which I sincerely apologize. What you see here above is actually derived from this terrible shot below! I'm not kidding! That's a lot of Photoshop reconstruction above, to get the image all straightened out again. This shot below uses a different digital raw converter, with perhaps better color rendition (Bibble). I'll say in advance of posting that the colors look better.

Thanks again, with appreciation,

Garth