Three Little Girls Portrait - WIP

Still a long way to go...but got the faces and a little bit of the hands goin' today.

It's been one of those afternoons, where I make a brushstroke and then 5 to correct it.  Ugh...painting a 'muliple likeness' is a goal...but will it happen?

I don't like the littlest one's face - it was the last one today..so therefore, it will be first next time. I think I get blinded or tired and can't see what I need to see.

So...brushes are cleaned for tomorrow.

This is where I started the other day..

Where I Stand - Finished Pastel and WIP Oil

"Catching Grasshoppers"

20" x 24" framed pastel

This one is done. Had some more work to do on the girl on the left.  Her face WAS the same value/color as everyone else, even though her face was in shadow.

Changed a few minor details.  This one will hang in my house.

Started another one - again with my grandaughter and my two step grandaughters.

It measures 20" x 20" and is being done on wrapped canvas.

Just the rough in at this point, a long way to go.

Everyone of us took lots of photos of this pose...as we got them to tighten up their cozyness, you can tell it was almost at the end of the fun.  It's the first time they had met.  I love this photo, it's so 'vacation-y'.  We were in the Colorado mountains.

No photo of my feet - it's the same.  I am reaching the top of the hill, where I can almost see the other side.  Physical therapy and massage - are SO helpful and welcome.  Most days I can see and feel improvement, although if it's the day after PT, I am usually so sore and still have that 'broken ankle gait'. 

But the next day after that is GRRReat!!