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OTMAA by ~theancientofdays:icontheancientofdays:

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I finished this one this morning. It's Payne's Grey watercolour, 11" by 15". The matted version is here: [link]
I'm a big fan of Russian History -my great aunt Charlotte was an English governess to a noble Russian family, and was acquainted with the children pictured above. These are the five children of Nicholas and Alexandra, often referred to as OTMAA, the first initials of their names. The girls are (left to right) Anastasia, Olga, Marie and Tatiana; the boy is the youngest - Alexei.
I think I did pretty well on this one, and I think I got the likenesses quite close. Since they're saints in the Russian Orthodox Church, I thought I ought to try to do my best. I rarely paint full-body portraits, and almost never this small.

The reference was a Susanne Homan photograph.

Original available.

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*density-tmr Feb 25, 2009, 3:32:32 PM
This is excellent. Great choices of tones throughout.

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~theancientofdays Feb 25, 2009, 3:41:14 PM
Thank you very much. ^^ Rather a difficult painting because it's so heavy on the detail, but one that I'd been wanting to do for a long time. Glad you think I did well.

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~ultimatedogluva528 Feb 25, 2009, 4:42:21 PM
Very nice portrait! It's so cool to learn about family history! Great job!
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~Horseluver411 Feb 25, 2009, 6:39:26 PM
this is wonderful! I love the poses, very nice work!!!

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~amateur1314 Feb 25, 2009, 6:52:10 PM
Nomnom.

You should make more of these.

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~theancientofdays Feb 25, 2009, 6:57:56 PM
Glad you like it! ^^ These aren't very good sellers, so I only really do this kind of thing to have around for my own personal pleasure. This is the first time I've ever done a full-body portrait in monochrome, and I'm pretty pleased with it. I'm hoping that having it around will help generate commission work for other similar portraits. If it's not taken by September, I'll hang it at a museum exhibition. :)
I'm using your portrait as an example for the spring show season, but after May I'd like to send it on to you, if that's okay.

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*Martywolf92 Feb 25, 2009, 7:38:14 PM
just wow!

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~amateur1314 Feb 25, 2009, 8:02:51 PM
@_@;;

Really?

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=just-joking Feb 26, 2009, 12:13:32 AM
you know you did :no:

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