Rebecca by candlelight on her 16th birthday

Rebecca by candlelight on her 16th birthday
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Just superb, Tom, love her eyes, the greenish blue against her skin just sets the whole thing off. Is this done with both hands???

I get abit exasperated by this site. Many pictures are inundated by comments and likes and many in my opinion do not merit the number. Then there are other works which get a single comment, some not at all, and they are wonderful to me. This image youve created is wonderful. It is haunting. It seems timeless and i think its because there is little indication of what time the girl is from. The candle light suggests a bygone age, maybe centuries in the past.

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17/11/2018
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oil on canvas board

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Tom Small

In 1979 my wife organised a series of painting lessons with a French Artist who taught art in a college in north west London. The painting lessons turned out to be anything but. For ten months he made me draw anything from toe nail clippings to the pieta and paintings in the various galleries…

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