Fiona, Talking to me, 9 x 12 ins. oil on canvas panel

As I was talking to 6 year old Fiona on a screen call, the lighting and the colors caught in the late afternoon sun captivated me, and I quickly moved my finger to take a screen shot. I took several more photos in that pose, and chose this pose to paint from.

I posted this on the Ian Robert’s Mastering Composition Community and was really pleased when Ian Roberts chose it as one of the Community Paintings to comment on in the monthly Community Zoom call.

He said, “That just the portrait, love it, love it. I mean, just so much character to it, and it’s not overpainted over and over trying to get it all right; it just got it right and left it, and had a photograph good enough, that gave us the lights and the darks that allowed it to happen.” (Transcript of Zoom words). That was rewarding!