looking very strange at this stage. Although not all the problems were worked out by the finish, the left eye had to be completely repainted.
Although this is one of the best of the series, I still managed to give this girl a bigger nose than in real life. The chin in this photo looks much more “rigid” than in the actual painting.
The background in this one seems even more fantastical than Cindy’s, but I was only intended to paint a pink sunset to match the pink tones in the skin.
On Saturday we woke up dark and early before the sun in order to catch our Uber to LAX before 7am. We were flying southwest and had checked in the day before right at the buzzer, the instant we were allowed to, but still ended up in C group. When we finally lined up we […]
Our train arrived in Paris after sunset and we tried to use the “easy” subway system we experienced in London and Brussels but were quickly stymied by a glitchy machine that wouldn’t keep English selected past the initial screen. Kind of a problem for figuring out what to buy. Belgium even had a guy walking […]
We reached Brussels before sunset, perfect for checking out the Bourse Christmas Market. We’d picked the right lodging in some ways and the worst in others. The hotel was right next to the market and the hub of the city, but it was also somehow very loud at night with clanging and banging and strange […]
