John Antoine by Sylvia Philpot

Beautifully observed; character comes thudding across.

It certainly does beautiful portrait...love the expression in the eyes

Wonderful portrait with so much life in it! Thank you for your comments about my horse pastel, and your comments about liveliness are so true! I know what you mean (can see it in your portrait!), but as yet am unable to give my work that much-needed sparkle! I am working on it tho, and hope to be able to bring a bit more 'personality' to my work in future. It is so hard tho, as I taught myself to draw and paint from photos, and it is so hard to reak the habit of copying what I see!!!

I only wish i could do a portrait like this, it really draws you into his character, thank you for your comments on time to rest, i really appreciated it :-).

Sylvia, this is a super portrayal. I enjoy looking at your gallery very much. Hope you have resolved any portfolio/gallery/twitchy finger on 'delete'problems now!!