Another Top 10 Artwork

I received another email this morning that an artwork made it into the Top Ten on Artwanted again. It really makes my day. Here is the artwork, a commissioned portrait of a little boy. I should take a good digital shot of it, so the whole artwork can be shown I thought the outer background areas looked pretty cool, but you can't see all of that in the scan. I need to start working smaller or get a larger scanner! I shaded in the background and then used kneaded rubber eraser to bring out some light into the background.

I hope I can get some artwork done today. So far, my day has been filled with driving kids to school. I had a conference with my daughter's teachers.

Little Guy is making a habit of taking his Pull-Up training pants off and wanting me to put them back on him. I have lost count how many times I have helped him put them on. I stopped counting after about 15. I keep telling myself that someday I will laugh about this.

Another picture made top 10 list

This new baby portrait I did made it into yesterday's Top Ten on ArtWanted! Thank you to everyone who visited and commented, it really is appreciated. Anything that can bring more attention to an artist's work is great.

Art Award of Sorts

One of my portraits made it into the "Top Ten Club" of all the 422,733 images on Artwanted.com yesterday. I think they get into the top ten by the number of views and comments (or maybe it's just the number of comments, I'm not sure)

It is really exciting to see an artwork rank on there...after all, there are more than 21,000 artists showing their artwork on that site. Here's the drawing. I would love it if you would comment, because maybe it will rank again!

What's shown isn't how the portrait looked like in the end. I added sort of a ruffled edge to the young lady's shirt. It was amazing how just one small thing like that really improved it. I added the ruffle at my client's house after we discussed it, so that's why I didn't get a new scan of the art.
I don't go to all of my client's homes, but if they are within about 20 miles I try to do that.