I noted in the record that Joy often use her computer to view her reference photos as it made for a comfortable painting setting along with the sizes she painted, this one a 14 inch square panel as opposed to a canvas. I have mentioned a maulstick elesewhere as a steadying prop for an artists and this works even more steadily when one paints on a board rather than on a canvas. Once again this is a memorial portrait painted for a friend who’s mother passed away, and once again it seems to me that the eyes have that very distant look of staring into the universe, a view that might be entirely appropriate. She is always going to be there.
Oil on canvas. Photo credit: Joy MacFadyen.
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