Mimi Torchia Boothby

Month: May 2010

  • Sunshine Award

    Well this is a First for me! I’ve been nominated for a sunshine award by fellow blogger Alison Schuchs The Sunshine Award is a blogger award for creativity and positively, and its an honor to receive it! The rules for accepting the award are: Put the logo on your blog or within your post. Pass…

  • Lucia revisited

    It seems that by using wet on wet, Lucia looks more like the Lucy we all knew. She still looks a little too old, but the face is finally hers, at least seems like it to me. I tried to use colors that looked ancient, after all, this is from a 90 year old photograph…

  • Megan unposed

    I painted Megan again. This time I used a new technique, placing wet paint on wet paper. I wanted to preserve the softness of her skin and to show how she glows. It looks like I’m getting a little closer.

  • Tom from a reference

    Now that I am relaxed and in my studio, I decided to try and paint Tom again. I am really surprised at the difference it makes.. I’ve been having fun painting all these redheads.

  • Megan Morgan

    Sometimes you meet someone you just have to paint. And they’re willing. Here’s Megan