Yesterday was a good day.
I made it to art class without incident and even arrived 10 minutes early in the hope that the instructor would already be there and could critique my portraits and tell me what's wrong with them. As it turned out, the instructor was a tad late, and she jumped right into instruction. When she asked to see our artwork, I confessed that I had not fooled with the chalk pastels but had tried to do my granddaughters' portraits in colored pencil. I showed her #4's photo and my portrait and said, "Tell me what's wrong with this portrait. Why doesn't it look like the picture?"
Her reply was, "It isn't finished. Keep going."
I'd hoped for a little more specificity. ;)
She did give me a few tips - add some blue here, strengthen the highlight there.
After class, we had lunch together. It was fun.
When I got home, I worked on the portrait a little, but I'm not sure it improved the likeness and I'm scared to do anything else to it for fear of totally ruining it.
Oh, well...it's just paper, right?
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