Girl With the Violet Eyes

 

​In doing portrait painting,

I like to incorporate color into the skin, hair and eyes

 that takes the portrait out of the realism genre.

 In this example, the young woman's eyes are a deep shade of violet,

which I repeated in the background, hair and shadows on the skin.

 

 

7" x 5" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

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The Garden Nook

Sunflowers, hollyhocks, nasturtiums, lupins, and other pretty flowers make up her 'secret garden' nook. This painting was patterned after a real spot in the garden. I added the stone bench, more flowers and the young girl reading her favorite book.

8"x6" acrylic on linen paper

$50.