Update on Louise Pitre

Finished Portrait by Graham Hanks

I am quite speechless with this portrait by Graham Hanks I love so much about it. I think it definitely looks like me and love the incorporation of the Coffee House logo and gold being my favorite color. He also kept in my favorite amber necklace that I wear all the time and earrings. Well done Graham and thank you so much!

Another W.I.P. Louise Pitre

I got some lovely Oil Paints for Christmas. To try them out I got involved in a Portrait Challenge on my Art Site of Louise Pitre. This is as far as I got today. I mainly just wanted to get some color down. So far I am loving the Oil Paints.

Great Link for Free Art Books

Here is a great link for Art Books in PDF format.

Graham Hanks & Son with thier portrait

Graham Hanks Blog

Just a quick sketch

Just a quick sketch I did this morning. Trying out the old color pencils and remembering how I don't like to use them. The paper will only hold so much colored pencil then it quits. With acrylic paint I can go over it and over it and over it again. Ha!

Clarksdale, MS Artist Marshall Bouldin III

I'm reading "A Painter's Odyssey, The Art of Marshall Bouldin III." I like what he says, "The difference between the image of a person and a portrait of a person is you get the feeling of that person with a portrait. And you have to get that feeling to come out. Most people do not look at you at all. They know who you are and they store it back there in their mind, they recognize you. Why do they recognize you? Very few people can really describe your physical features. That happens to everybody. Your eyes focus here and focus there, and you really don't look at them all at once, I get this feeling quite a bit. If I've got that feeling of that person in the painting, then I've got a portrait. "

By the way, I'm going to hear his son lecture this Thursday in Tupelo. Looking forward to it.