Monday, December 28, 2009

Portrait of an Artist - 2009


Portrait of an Artist 2009 | 8x10" | oil on hardboard

Some of you will remember that a year ago I did a portrait swap which was facilitated by the Different Strokes from Different Folks blog. Artists were asked to submit photos of themselves and in turn, received a photo of another anonymous artist to paint. It was fun last year, in the end discovering that the woman I painted was from Israel.

Once again this year, I do not know who this woman is, but hope to correspond with her after both of our portraits are revealed on the Different Strokes blog. I would encourage you to go there and see the wide variety of styles and interpretations. There are 180 artists participating this year.

I painted this on a little larger panel than my most of my other blog work, and it was a pre-primed panel that I had purchased. The surface was ultra-smooth and I struggled with that more than I thought I would. In the end, I think it came around fairly well.



6 comments:

  1. I think I may know who this is, and will be looking forward to seeing if I guessed correctly! You've done a magnificent job - I am sure they will be very pleased.

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  2. Excellent, John! It looks like she's just turned to speak to us. Wonderful work.
    Happy holidays and best to you in 2010!
    Liz

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  3. great entry for DSFDF. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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  4. Thanks Claire, Edward, Liz and Dominique! I appreciate your kind words. Happy New Year to all of you!

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  5. Beautiful job John...I love her expression, you captured it well!

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