exists to create art which reflects the beauty and the glory of God, to use art to comfort and encourage people, and to inspire others to pursue the arts.
How exciting! I got the oil portrait that was done of me in the portrait swap. I think it is beautiful! What good work. I hope that someday I can get that good with oils. Does anyone think it looks like me?
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.” — Oscar Wilde
This is my most recent commission. Such a cutie pie! I actually had to draw this one twice, because I just could not get the likeness. I am relieved that I did finally get it.
“Little girls are precious gifts, wrapped in love serene. Their dresses tied with sashes and futures tied with dreams.” – Unknown
And I am still doing head studies. Here is my latest one. I just do not have the hang of oil paints, yet. But, I am having fun.
This man, in the reference photo, looked an awful lot like an angry Yul Brynner, but I don’t think I got that likeness. He is from Nepal, I think.
“Girls are giggles with freckles all over them.” – Unknown
Virginia C. McCoy Fine Art 
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