My latest completed painting, the last of 2010 (probably!)
Here are a few close ups:
The face is strange, the hair looks too unnatural to me and there are lots of elements I'm not pleased with, but I'm happy with the expression, mostly joy with a pinch of terror, which exactly suits the mood of the whole painting.
Framing needed the help of some software I wrote for the purpose, to calculate the angles. The cuts had to be made by hand, but they were accurate enough and not as difficult as you might imagine. Here is the frame so far, clamped as the glue is drying...
The joints are good enough to allow me to stain the frame (bad joints might require filling, and so painting over).
