Hi All,

She's done! The girl with the difficult-to-paint eyes! Hope you like her.

In the end I decided to go for a gloss coat over the eyes, instead of a catchlight. I just couldn't get the catchlight to look right.

I'm afraid this'll be my last paintjob for a while, as I'll be moving to another continent over the next weeks and I expect that'll absorb quite a bit of time. And my paints will be on a ship for 6 weeks, darn... .

Cheers,
Adrian

Here's the original picture, and another one, picturing the same woman a few decades later (the girl was 13 when the famous picture was taken):

Brilliant work Adrian you've really captured a very distinctive look perfectly, best of luck with the move fellah

Steve

Tell you what Adrian.......we all knew this was going to be a stunning piece of work.
Safe journey.
Cheers
Derek

Damn fine work sir. The end result was worth the wait!

Adrian,
You should be proud of a job well done. Good luck on the move and hope to hear from you soon.
Cheers
John

Good Job, Good luck, Good Journey! Fair Winds and Following Seas!

Hi Adrian!

This is your best till now mate - I love what you done with the flesh tones, robes, eyes etc...

Cheers,
Pedro.

Superb result Adrian, the finished bust is stunning, well done.
And all the best with your move.

Catchlight or not, this is some marvelous piece of paint work. My congratulations.

Jhan

Just superb Adrian!

What a beautiful piece of work.


Cheer's,
Jeff.

Adrian beautiful painting and a stunning finish congratulations.

Cheers Ken

Stunning Adrian!!
Brian

Great all round Adrian
Flesh tones look superb and the robe tone is fantastic.
Glad you done away with the catchlights for me they don't work in 3 D

I can see a pillaring coming on for that remark
Good luck with the move.

Ron

Great, just great. I like you decided to sculpt some extra hair locks on the forehead... looks wonderful.

Well done,
Mario

I'm just glad to see that a least two other people don't do use catchlights either

Steve

Fantastic work mate, You have really done n excellent job capturing the eyes.

Jonesy

Hi Adrian!

One of the best - probably the best! - painted versions, I have ever seen!

Very close to the original - stunning job!!!

Cheers

Great Work Adrian! And I brlieve it's not an easy job... unsual skin tones. It's much more difficult try to achieve real tones, than ones we do on our own on the figures, and I think you achieved it very well

Regards
Pedro