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Oil on MDF,20cm by 28cm. Had the flu when I was doing this so was getting weirdly obsessed with details that are too tiny to be seen, bl**dy virus. Actually seen a mistake I need to correct on the nose!! Just a genre image I was asked to do; not too happy with the result; "could have been better" like all my school report cards used to have written on them.
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Thanks, I prefer the update as it needed tweaking, but I could work out how to just change this one for the new one. Not internet sazzy I guess.
Looked at your internet site, are you really only 15!! The photos are very impressive.
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You really paint beautifully!
Congrats my friend!
See ya!
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i love your work...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have featured your work in my journal, hope you don't mind 
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Thanks, really kind of you!
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Very true,but sometimes the mess ups are the best bits of the paintings!
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Thanks, it has it's good points.
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wheather maybe was cold and snowy while you were painting, but the picture is nicely warm...
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Thanks, but you'll notice it's indoors as no one can go out, it's raining all the time now!!Bl**dy hell some sun please!!!
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Well, we are in,rain is out... ItΒ΄s not so bad!... 
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Could have been better?, at this point maybe just different, it's already better. Nice work!
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The could have been better is all my parents saw on report cards; surprised they paid for my education and didn't just send me down the mines!How are things with you, good I hope. People vanish of this site and you worry!!
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Well, like you said about life and art... I'm all over the place, but I'm still here too, when I can find the time. I just got a few new tubes of paint, so I'll see what happens.
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time is in short supply! Sounds bad that you can only paint when you get a new tube of paint; do you live far out in the wilds! A frontiersman!
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I just thought a new tube might inspire, but you paint a nice picture/image of me "the frontiersman" waiting for my tube of paint!, I wish things were that simple!, keep that thought of me, I'm afraid I might disappoint otherwise... my reality is far less interesting these days. and cheer up about the weather, where do you live?
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I live in the Northern Ireland and it's dreary and dank.But I'm warm and indoors so shouldn't complain.
I will keep the frontiersman thing going in my head, I decided my niece's kids are going to Hogwarts because fantasy can be more fun than reality and helps get you through!
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I would like to visit Ireland someday, but I'm a partially insane hermit, who has panic attacks with the thought of flying, or anything too exciting, is it possible to be partially insane???, I mean maybe I wouldn't notice... if I was. I have been to Norway.
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I haven't been too many places either, just France and Holland and in boht it rained all the time so felt just like home!IΓΉd never get anything done if I traveled, it takes me forever to get in gear, and day to day life is a real stumbling block to getting
anything done.I've always wanted to be a workaholic but am way too lazy.And flying is not the luxury travel it used to be,with all the security you have to go through to get on the plane, and that's just an internal flight.Where do you reside if you don't mind me asking?
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Rancho Cucamonga, California, about 50 miles from LA. Doesn't rain much, it's mostly warm and sunny, lots of very busy strange people, stores, restaurants, cars, loud music, etc. The Northern California coast is more my speed, very beautiful and green, less busy... but the La area is where I am, for now.
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Well at least the weather is nice, love the idea 'of busy strange people'
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Yes, If I see a flash I'll duck and dive, North Korea... Chumps, It would be the last thing they ever did. I'm more worried about Fukushima nuclear power plant, that never did get resolved, and I'm right down the jet stream.
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And of course you could always have an Exxon pipeline under the garden waiting to burst!Sometimes you get to wonder what will get us first, ourselves or the climate we've screwed up! But then we might always get hit by a meteorite!!!Think I'm going to get in the bunker now! Only joking, don't have a bunker think I'll just sit it out with a good bottle of wine
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Sorry for the delay, Laura is kicking me out to go paint, so I'm taking a semester off and leaving for Utah, I've been going nuts not painting. So hopefully I'll have some new work up soon!
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Look forward to seeing, Laura is obviously good for you!
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Rory, I just got back from vacation and was going through the deviations in my messages one by one and as my slow computer was downloading this, I was stunned. I thought it was the most mysterious and beautiful image I had seen and then I saw you had created it. Honey, this is amazing. I am so proud of you, it's incredibly beautiful, and stop being negative about your own work. You are a master, plain and simple. Just wonderful.
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But if you look, just above her nostril the shadow is a bit harsh
Thanks for the compliment though.
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I think only you see the shadow darling, all I see is perfection. It's is 80 degrees here today Rory. It feels like Florida did last week!
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80 degrees!!!!! Do you fry your food on the pavement, the temperature here is 46 degrees,it's feeling warm!
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LOL! 80 degrees is spring for us, wait until summer!
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AAAAAAAHH!Spring for us is snow, with a bit of rain thrown, what the summer is going to be like I dread to think, last summer it never stopped raining. No wonder Ireland is green!
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Ireland's green is not grass, it's mold!
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And it's growing on me,just had the dogs out for a walk and I'm drowned! Pets are meant to be good for you??
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It's a wonderful painting, has a beautiful mysterious atmosphere and the bond between mother and child is excellent. The elements in the shadows must have been a challenge to keep them all subdued. I really like the composition, particularly that light section of the curtain leading the viewer to the focal point. If I was your teacher I would give you a 10 out of 10
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Thanks you very much! It was a bugger to do,and the weather here was so depressing,cold and snowy. You can have too much snow! Kind of wish I was a bit of a faster painter, this is tiny but took longer than than some of the enormous work people do on this site. Size isn't everything but it can be impressive.;
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I find smaller works are more difficult, particularly when they are as complex as this one. One small brush stroke and the face is gone, I have worked under magnifying glasses to make some areas easier to paint. ( if my brain thinks the area is larger the less I shake ). Vermeer's paintings are quite small and complex but are exquistively painted and held in high esteem, so please do not under value your painting because of scale.
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Thanks, Vermeers are quite big in comparison to some genre paintings, Dou's work is smaller and more detailed. It's crazy looking at it and thinking someone painted it with a tinnie tiny brush!;and I saw a pre-raphaelite exhibition and the detail is so small and amazing, I'd not have the patience but then they didn't have the telly or internet so what else are you going to do with yourself! My thing is I have to doss about for a while before I can get into painting, some people just seem really disciplined.
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It is excellent! Better than a photo! You are actually a very talented artist! Bravo! The tenderness that comes out from this painting is unbelievable! I love it!
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Thanks, it was a struggle, not helped by the flu and the horrible cold we're having at the moment.
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You are very good indeed! I am wondering if you could upload a tutorial of your WIPs. It could help us a lot!
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I never have a wip because I never know if anything is going to work out, every painting is new, maybe that's why I never get bored with it. Thanks for the compliments.
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