Thursday, October 21, 2010

Magazine girl

I painted this from a picture in a magazine which was advertising "watches" Yes, watches"..but I thought it was an interesting one to practice on shading as well as her hair.

14 comments:

  1. You're doing a wonderful job with your faces! Keep up the good work.

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  2. The hair is beautifully done! fabulous. really wonderful job with the subtly graded skinned tones, too.

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  3. As always, you've done a magnificent portriat. I'm always amazed at your potraits- in pastel no less.

    Compositionally: I like the mysterious element.

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  4. Hi Hilda,

    Wonderful texture in the hair as well as the skin tones. Very good work.

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  5. Wonderful portrait. As previously said the hair texture is beautifully done

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  6. Thank you Susan, Liz and Joe for your kind comments.

    Thank you Sue g. and sue as well. I have problems with the hair occasionally making it look natural, but receiving opinions from my talented blogger friends means a lot to me.

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  7. You nailed her expensive, high lighted hair! Kudos girl.

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  8. Wonderful portrait,Hilda. I especially like skin tones and its hair.

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  9. thank you Trudy and Julian. Your comments are so appreciated. I was aiming for the gradual skin tones so it would look natural and not severe.

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  10. Hilda, this looks so perfect.. the work on the the skin tone and the hair is just fabulous..Great job as usual!

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  11. She looks wonderful,you made all of us to forget about watchesand made us to watch her...

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  12. You're right Anu...this is "advertisement" these days BUT at least I had a beautiful model from it. Thank you again for visiting my blog.

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  13. Your work is exceptional and I really enjoyed looking at your work. Best Larry

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  14. Thank you Larry for that wonderful comment...you made my day!

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