Need to paint this one

Camille at Atlantic Beach, NC

Camille graduates!

My youngest daughter, Camille, 23, graduates as a paralegal May 2008. My oldest, Melissa is with her sharing the spotlight! We are so proud of her. Camille is the subject of my painting as you enter my blog.

Robert finished!

Here is the portrait of Robert finished nearly simulateously with his sister, Katy's portrait. Keeping the backgrounds similar was very important since they will hang together in the same location in their parents' living room. Robert is long and lean and this canvas was almost too short to show that! He really needed a longer canvas than his sister but I managed to just fit him in with the same head size! 24x30.

Thanks for looking!

Katy finished February 08

I finished this portrait of lovely Katy over the holidays and signed it in February. Please excuse the glaring sunlight catching the different brushstrokes of the background. The final varnish, which will be applied months from now should even that out pretty well. I varnish with Gamblin Gam-Var by the way. This painting is a companion to her younger brother's painting which I'll post in the next entry. They are both 24x30 and will hang together in the parent's living room. I am very proud of these two paintings.

Suzanne finished November 2007

I finished this portrait of Suzanne during the month of November after working on it since July 2006. I am very proud of it and feel that is does justice to Suzanne. She loves her violin, plays it beautifully and this portrait caught her in the middle of becoming a young lady of 16. She was barely 15 when I started this and now drives a car on her own!

What eyes she has - and that smile! Thanks to her parents for giving me the priviledge to paint her.

This is a detail of the painting, which will be shown in the photo stream at the left hand side of the blog

24x30 oil on linen

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Haven't been here in awhile! Just realized my blog has been virtually out of commission due to a gif I accidentally posted with - which multiplied and caused my scroll to become hugely long before anyone could get to the pictures or anything else. I do apologize to anyone who cared enough to come to this blog and then had to leave due to that gif taking so long!

Its gone now!

I am working on 3 portraits, 3 landscapes and 2 figurative paintings right now and studying a lot in between. I found a great blog owned by Enzi Shahmiri, a fellow portrait artist. She has links to one of my favorite Russian artists, Ilya Repin's work so go take a look.

I'll post some updated pictures of my painting progress hopefully tomorrow since I am back!

Thanks for visiting.

Ballet paintings continued

Here are 3 paintings from my series I painted of Krista, a beautiful ballet dancer. She graciously danced for me on Saturday afternoon at the East Carolina University ballet studio while I snapped away taking many pictures.

The paintings are all for sale - waiting for an exhibit in an unknown gallery at this time. Any offers will be considered (for a gallery that is!) I have painted 10 paintings in the series and the range of size is varied. These 3 are rather small, 12x24, 16x20 and 12x18 from top to bottom. Contact me if you are interested.

Ballet paintings for sale!

The last two paintings are SOLD

Progress on my latest portrait of a young girl. This is 24x30, oil and unfinished of course. This portrait will have a portrait of her brother hung on the same wall in the client's home. Background should be extremely similar and I have started the brother as well.

Krista - 16x20 - Krista is the dancer I've painted 10 paintings of for a show. Now, all I need is a gallery to show them in...........

Big Hello To Renee!

Here's a big HI AND HELLO! to my friend and fellow portrait slaver, Renee Price! You may be my only visitor besides my family! Remember to click on the smilebox production of Mother's Day pics to see Cami and some beautiful flowers from our yard. Glad to see you!

Mother's Day at our house *click on link*

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update of my painting of Ali as of last week

Here are pics at Mom's 76th Birthday and pics at our house this spring

Hi Mom, follow this link!

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Allison small portrait

I'm working on this very small portrait of a past client, Allison. Here is what I've done after a wipeout from raw umber and the two days of color work. My palette is mostly earth colors.

Here are some paintings I'm working on - some look fuzzy - I think it's from the wind blowing while I was taking the shots outside - for best lighting, of course. All are in progress. The model is a beautiful dancer daughter of a fellow teacher. I also taught her when she was a little girl of 6 and 7.

White Tutu - oil on canvas - 12x16

Mirror Dancer - 11x14

oil on gessoboard

First day of the blog

So here is the first post in my new blog. Thanks to SamIvie for giving me this idea. I plan on posting my paintings in progress at least once a week. This will keep me on my toes I think! Also, my friends and family can drop in once in awhile to see what I've been up to. Unlike my site, www.denisedhall.com, which has only finished portraits and portrait business, this blog shall be for paintings of all kinds in progress.

I'm working on a dancer series, 3 portraits, some other various and sundry drawings and plan on putting them all here.

If you're a painter, artist or fellow sufferer in the arts - please drop me a line. See my link page for some great artists sites to visit for inspiration.