Little Pencil by Dalene West

I think you have caught the compassionate expression in the eyes perfectly. Well done!

Beautiful painting.

Hi, thanks for the feedback, however, i must confess i nearly abandoned the picture after about 7 seconds of brushstrokes as, generally i do a fine pencil outline of the pic, so as to guide me once i get started laying down the paint. i was annoyingly distracted so had quite forgotten to do the pencil sketch before i started. So, I got a bit worried as i thought, i'm just stroking away and have no clue if i've measured it correctly, and as i was painting wet on wet, i wanted to keep the moisture in tact in case anything needed to be "blotted" before it dried into permanency, so i had to measure quickly with the eye as i went along. i thought, lemme stick with this one and see what i can manage. the results i felt, even though there is room for improvement, was ok (ish). but thanks for your kind comments anyway, God bless.