Oil on Linen 8″x 15″
An exercise I could have taken farther, but decided to leave as is.
Illuminated
May 1, 2015
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Comments on: "Illuminated" (131)
Glad you did. Sometimes playing it ‘rough’ is good for change, I guess. 🙂
It can be:) Thank you.
The colors, the reddish hair and the blue background make such a 3D effect, stunning!
robert
Many thanks, Robert!
Excellent.Jalal
Thank you, Jalal.
I feel very privileged to have discovered your blog Elena, you have a beautiful touch.
How very kind of you, Dawn. Welcome, and thanks very much.
Great, alive! Regards! JS
Thank you, JS!
Don,t need 2, just paint!!! 🙂 Lovely!
Adore the dynamic diagonal contrast, all so brilliant together.
Elena, I love the light in this so much! I just noticed the background which is really cool also with the complementary colors! 🙂
Yup, I try to include as many contrasting elements as possible. Thanks for noticing, Patsy! Thank you:)
Awesome! And you are welcome, Elena! 🙂
Superb … I like that you took it no further. I remember when you first started posting these Elena … quite the master now 🙂
Thanks much, Geoff. I’m working hard:)
Absolutely lovely – love the blue background in contrast, too, really makes her pop.
Thank you, James.
Lovely work!
Thank you, Graham!
Such a sense of being out in a magical garden, full of possibilities. gorgeous.
That’s what I was hoping for. Thank you, Karen.
Wow, this one makes me speechless, almost… May I ask, when you made this one, didn’t you feel a bit like… a goddess? Like someone who created the first thinking and feeling being? That’s how it comes across to me, as very rich and very special!
🙂 Sorry to report no goddess feelings:) But thanks so very much for your lovely comments!
Great wrok 🙂
Thank you!:)
No worries 🙂
What they all said (:
Thanks, Chris:)
Excellent… very realistic!!! Best wishes, Aquileana 😀
Thank you, Aquileana!