Tuesday, December 1, 2009

EVERY TIME I PAINT A PORTRAIT, I LOSE A FRIEND

Supposedly, that is something John Singer Sargent said. It may be true of this one, for me. This lovely girl is a good friend - or she was until I created this bad portrait of her :(
I certainly didn't mean to make her skin so muddy and her hair so helmet-like. And I didn't mean to ruin her eyes and overwork the paper there so much that I had to go in with watercolor pencil to get them even looking like eyes. It all just came out that way.
I will try again...but not while I'm still fighting a migraine. Sorry, T!!! And she'll forgive me because she is a friend :)



3 comments:

Teresa Palomar Lois said...

Well, as far as I see your friend would probably be so excited about looking so beautifuly thin through your eyes that she'd overlook your use of *gasp* watercolor pencils for the eyes LOL <3 :D

RH Carpenter said...

Well, I sure hope she forgives me for not getting her beautiful skintones correct!! :) Thanks so much, T.

Teresa Palomar Lois said...

Lololol nuclear white is hard to paint after all, I'm loving to me a model ^_^