The Smile-Portrait

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Li was the hostess who supplied a lot of great reference photos!
I picked the delightful Patrise and her boy! The sun is no match for her bright, warm smile!
She runs the local straw market making baskets, etc. out of palm leaves...I believe she's in Nassau.

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My Etsy

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands

Intertwined-Figurative

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Kay was the great hostess. Thanks for the terrific reference photos.

I decided on the triple portrait because of the loving, directional gazes. The silent gazes of these lovely ladies speak volumes! I brought the older girl in closer to the grouping. She was way out on the right in the photo.
On this figurative, I tried to avoid hard lines in the features and maintain soft edges. Exact resemblances was not my intention.

Almost entirely by painting knife. I like the exciting surface texture achieved
I hope you like it!

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear

Beach Outing

Oil on 5x7 gessoed hardboard.
There's something about this strange color palette that I like. The hot neon pink on the child was strange but I'm glad that I used it. Th dark deep green is a choice I've never used for an ocean before, but I'm glad I used it. Same goes for using a sky that dark blue for a sunny beach scene. I'm pretty used to a new choice working it's way into a painting occasionally, but this bugger's full of 'em. What fun!

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My Etsy
psalm 34:1 I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.