The Girl with the Gold Earring by Steve Strode

I admire the intense expression and your allegorical reference Steve.

Lovely portrait and like the morphed effect, very nicely painted!

This is really good Steve.

Great quote and portrait. I think she looks mighty fine and she most definitely doesn't look like she thinks she does! I've always found in portraiture that get the mouth wrong and then it all looks wrong in terms of capturing a likeness. I like the emphasis of red lips, works a treat.

Cheers Carole, Angela, Stephen and Heather. I wonder if Vermeer got lip from the girl in the pearl earring :-)

Its lovely!

I think it's a great little portrait Steve

A prophet is without honour in his own country; a husband without praise in his own house. I don't know what your wife looks like when not chewing wasps, but this portrait reminds me of a Coronation Street actress whose name escapes me...

A lovely portrait !

Cheers Romila and Russell and Valerie

Cheers Robert :-). Can't help with the Coronation Street actress, I've not watched it since the comic duo of Ena Sharples and Minnie Caldwell.