2/10/00
Dear Brian,
I hope this gets to you. I look forward to
seeing you about the painting. It will be a job I will work very hard
at. When is Mother’s Day anyway? Middle of May, I believe. It will
take most of all that time to paint it. I suppose we could wait till a
month before the deadline but then I would be working everyday on it.
2/10/00
Dear Brian,
Great to hear from you. We will be gone next week coming
home on Feb 20th. I look forward to hearing from you the week of the 20th.
Tom
2/10/00 -0500,
you wrote:
Tom, yes I did get your e-mail. I am also looking forward
to having to do this. With tax time coming up I am just making sure I
can do this financially, and I think I can swing it. All I need to do
is come up with enough good photos without my wife missing them.
If everything works out I will have everything early next week. Mother’s
day is May 14.
Thanks, Brian.
Dear Brian,
I got the photos back today and visited JoJo Jim.
We are off to a good start. I liked one of the photos taken at your home
and I am sure to get another from the pictures today. I will make up a
web page so you can see them.
I hope Sarah did not find out. I look forward to coming
over this coming Monday and this time I think I will use a bounce flash.
The smell will not be there.
3/2/00
Tom, I am happy things are going well I am
getting more and more excited about this painting. Sarah has not suspected
anything so I think we are ok there. I think the smell was gone from the
lights but a bounce flash would be easier and Give you more time
with Cameron, however you want to do it is fine with me. A Web page
sounds like a great idea.
Thanks, Brian
Taken at the babysitters.
I think it somewhat duplicates the smile below taken two days before.
This may be a wonderful composition. The face has just the right
amount of turn to make it appealing. The smile also seems genuine. This
is the face that Brian and I decided on for the facial expression.
This photo shows a
very good composition and the one above it has a very similar expression.
I look forward to seeing you Monday night March 6th for another session
of pictures. I will bring all the pictures.
March 14th, the sketch
on the canvas was approved. Now the painting will begin. The sketch was
assembled from the hundred or so photos that were taken at five or six
sessions. The photo that we will be using for the face is above. I picked
up the clothes and will begin by paint them so as to get the back home
by the time the Davis’s come back from their Florida vacation. After
the clothes I will probably paint the hands and then the face. I will
be using the French painter Bouguereau for guidance. I have already prepared
the canvas in his manner of extremely smooth without a surface. The color
is laid on all at once meaning that there are no glazes. I have stretched
this canvas on ½ plywood finished on one side so the canvas will have
no opportunity to get poked or bent, two things that cause significant
damage to canvas prepared in the very smooth manner of Bouguereau.
24” x 30” oil portrait on canvas with a handsome substantial
5 ” wide simulated gold leaf frame in the French manner with holes,
centers and corners.
