Monday, January 5, 2009

Portrait Challenge

This is a portrait of an artist I do not know. The challenge was from artist Karin Jurick from her blog Different Strokes from Different Folks. 130 artists participated, we were given photos to paint from and this artist was to paint my portrait. What a fun challenge, never meeting someone and then trying to capture their personality by painting them. Whew, I hope she likes the finished piece.

11 comments:

  1. Really nice portrait, Gretchen! Beautiful job with her expression.

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  2. this is WONDERFUL!!! Your skintones are so lovely and so much detail rendered beautiful. Congrats!

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  3. Gretchen - You are amazing. Thank you for doing such a fantastic job on my portrait- I love it!

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  4. Beautiful painting Gretchen. Another great submission to this challenge.

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  5. Thanks Olga!!! It was fun painting you.
    And thank you Vern!!

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  6. Very nice and rich portrait with a great expression.

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  7. Gretchen, your portrait is awesome!. The luminosity of the skin is beautiful.

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  8. Thanks Dominique and Deborah!!

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  9. Gretchen, I have to agree about the skin tones...nicely rendered!

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