“OMG.. totally them!”
When I read the reaction, I wonder if anyone could understand my happiness – and relief! I was tasked to replace her smile with another photo’s, but it wasn’t easy: different lens, different angle, different lighting. No way I could simply “copy and paste”. I had to study the faces and feel my way along… I was literally painting blind.
It took several days before the painting “felt” right, and even longer before I had the courage to show it to the client.
The painting is gone now, delivered to happy people. Days dreaming of an ever evolving face, memories overwhelmed with a person I’ve never met. Why do I feel this way? Why can’t I just take it as a “job”?
12″x16″ Oil on linen