Three finished

Well, I have gotten an enormous amount of energy last week (must be due to the sunny weather) and I finished my last three projects. I am especially happy with the baby portrait of Daen which I made for Marion. I consider it my best piece uptill now. I feel with each portrait I am doing I am getting better. So this is the time to order a comission portrait, especially with all these positive vibes I am getting now (definitely the weather:) I got a comission request from a guy who came to repair my kitchen and saw the portrait of Daen with which I was busy on that time. He thought it was a good idea for mothersday :) I am so thrilled. I will post updates when I start it (I still need to get a picture though)

Well, here are the three children which I made in sepia effect. The likeness is definitely there. It is size 17x17cm.

















Then the bird... I am not totaly satisfied with it. I feel though it is the best I can do for now. I think I need alot more experience in our feathery friends before comitting myself to these kinds of projects. Sabrina (the woman for who I made this one) on the other hand liked it very much, so if I can make somebody happy, I should be happy with it also I guess :) The size is 10x18cm












Then the last one, like I said my best piece uptill now is baby Daen. Could be also due to the fact that I am getting alot of requests for baby portraits lately, so I am really getting the hang of it. The size of the portrait is 18x18cm



I also started a new portrait of a boy, but it is still in a preliminary state (not good enough to post an update) I actually promised him a little while ago to make one for him. Its just because he looked like a difficult subject (no offense) that I have been waiting for so long. I will post an update or I might post when it is really finished.

More promises

I am busy making three portraits in the same time. Maybe this doesnt sound like a good idea, but I have noticed if I continue on one piece only I get bored and at the end I tend to hurry too much because of this. Now if I am bored I can continue on another one. I hope to finish all of them by the end of next week.
The first one I started in the beginning of the easter holiday. It is done in three colors only, with the intention to have kinda sepia-effect. It looks already kinda finished, but I have a few more details to add.













The second one is a portrait of a bird. I started this one on monday. I feel I have a little overestimated myself to accept such a subject, since I dont have any experience at all in birds. Well, here is my humble try. I still have to add a more feathery look to the main body (I am still figuring out how I can make this realisticly looking)














The third one, again a baby, but this time a boy. This one I started on thuesday. Its going pretty fast and I am really happy with the result already. It needs some more layers and more detail in the shirt. The colors on the picture I took of the portrait are a little off, but when its finished I will post a better one.













So, next week hopefully I will get heaps of discipline and finish all of them. In between I have some jobinterviews also, since being unemployed has too many negative financial consequences and I also miss the social interaction.