Saturday, September 27, 2008

A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Lady


Original source picture.


(Apologies to James Joyce.)

My painting class had a pretty long summer break and when I'm not at class, I don't paint. (Not with all my little "impressionists" running around.) We started back up about two weeks ago and I managed to get a portrait done that I'd been working on for quite a while. The subject is Orania "Cally" Hamilton, a poet and friend of my mothers. I've never met her personally. My Mom mailed me a small black and white photo that I used as the portrait source picture.

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