Hops right off the page! Lovely!

nice and lovely.. both.. story and paintings…

What a face, and what an adventure! Do hope she is safe . . .

Nice story you have Elena. — seemingly, your friend left good photo and beautiful
paintings as well. I guess, your friend might have found a mate and made a den
somewhere. — and one day, may comeback together with the litter next year.

Some people will do anything to be the subject of your portraits! Actually, a narrow escape from death sounds both exciting and probably fair.

Wonderful painting Elena – sweet. What a story, you guys are such a loving family. We seem to have several rabbits each year come and stay in our yard, think because we have so much vegetation – two places where they sleep the ground is totally smooth and I’ve caught them sleeping with their back legs sprawled out behind them like a dog. So darn funny, except that they mow down my perennials each year – but they’re cute.

Oh what a great story Elena and such sweet portraits. We have lots of wild bunnies but they do not approach too close if we are around. I have a story about a new baby arrival that happened this summer. I will post it on my Garden blog the first Wed. in December if you want to read it.

Wonderful! I love them…

Hope she’s OK.

Beautiful! You’ve really caught the essence of ‘bunny!’

Cute. I love the loose brush strokes, has a lot of movement.

Beautiful paintings, Elena. I love the colors! What a sweet tribute to that precious bunny!

no wind here, in Artichokistan ! but the colors fit nicely in autumn . Pleasant to look at…

Brilliantly ‘borrowed’, Elena! [love the motion in the background] :-)

Yet another completely charming original illustrating your exceptional talent. with love, Eddie

Beautifully expressive & real! Love the range of color & the fluidity :)

piękne ,urzekające kolorystycznie

Elena, you have captured her stance so beautifully. <3

Lovely, you have an amazing ability to capture the mood of your subjects.

she’s adorable…she’s a model in the making!

I agree with one of your commenters–she looks like a long, lanky young model. While still a happy child!

Beautiful work Elena, you capture her playful spirit. I like how loose you kept the background and kept the details for her face.

The rhythm and movement of the background enhances this portrait and complements the title.

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Very nice, I am enjoying how the shadow takes on an eery presence

Very cool. I love drawings and paintings of hands, hands show a lot of a person. Great job.

Beautiful detail. The interplay with the shadow doubles (squares, maybe?) the expressiveness factor.

Cool and —– spooky !

I suck at drawing hands… This is spectalor.

Such a simple subject, but what a dramatic effect. The value changes are well done. Wonder painting Elena.

Ah Elena, you commented on one of my drawings about “character lines” – yours in this hand portrait are fascinating and fabulous. Love the skin tones and wonderful definition, and the shadow brings a very interesting character to the table.

Stunning detail Elena,
Hands and faces are difficult to capture. I always enjoy your art. 🐹🐹🗽

How clever !

Very moving Elena. I can feel the nerves in those hands. You’ve made art alive, which is of course what we all want. Congratulations on your creation.

I absolutely adore this and yes, I do have this feeling which is why I am researching my ancestors!

Beautiful!! How in the world do have the time for all this amazing work?

This is amazing, you are amazing!

Wonderful work Elena – love how fluid the piece is. How close my ancestors are all depends on what’s going on in my life. Very cool painting.

Oh! I love the use of colors in this one! It feels more energy and life than the previous ones to me!

Very well done, really like it… :-)

Lovely! Very fluid.

It is very dynamic! I <3

Beautiful combination.
This woman looks hero, everything around her is bright but her eyes ,not really.

Wonderful!

This is the perfect painting that totally sums up your Blood and Vapor series! Beautiful and so touching!

This is a lovely painting Elena – she’s a bright light in a world of great possibilities. I have not painted with oils yet, so your technique and materials sound very interesting and (for me) intimidating.

It’s a gorgeous painting Elena.
As you might know, the Turpentine came from Pine Tree.
They are not only works as a solvent, they can burn as a fuel =
on the last world war, under the oil embargo, Japan had no petrol,
so that, Japanese Zero-fighter was flying on the turpentine, and
the people in the country side was busy extracting Turpentine by
heating the pine log.

No, but I love that capture.

I haven’t painted in oil for a good while but I’ll be sure to take your advice next time I do. Love the painting btw! It’s very happy.

Lovely fresh expression! I can´t help you with the “natural” products though. I can only say that I use homemade soap to clean the brushes and it´s the best result I´ve found, to do so, by now. Will love to know more details and answers about you question. By the way congratulations for your new site!

Well I’m totally clueless on any of what you just said…nor can offer anything other than I love her and the title is perfect!

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Many thanks for the tips! Love it!

Wonderful painting! Thanks for sharing,the tips! :)

Very nice!

no i am clueless but i LOVE the image!

Your work is spellbinding. Every. Time. Wow.

Beautiful, Elena!

Fantastic Ribbon fantastic new home. Elena !

Brilliant, and great new site!

An absolutely wonderful picture! Like all of yours!

Wow…that’s all I’ve got. Enough said.

Congratulations Elena, is a very elegant website
.. Is easy to navigate and the design is so clean !!
A really great work, nice and simple.

Beautiful. Wonderful. Just terrific!

I like it!

So accomplished. I’m struggling with portraits at the moment, they are quite frightening! Your style is lovely

loving’ your fussin’

A superb Portrait Elena, so rich in detail and colour. Beautiful! :-)

Gorgeous! Love the hues in her hair.

Lovely colors and composition Elena!

I love it! I don’t know what glazing is. I never know when you type what you are doing if you want feedback, maybe direction, or are just informing. With the walktober thing I am doing, sharing rather right away what is true for me is the theme sort of. So, I love the hair and the rich tapestry/carpet. I love the shading, shadows around her. It adds to the right oppulent feeling. I noticed that the skin showed off what in my photography what would be over exposure or over highlight, causing my eye to wonder how or why it was so bright as if a light shone down on her, but the deep dark rich shadow is present and confuses a bit. I do not paint so I do not know anything about how difficult it is to do skin tones. I also do not know how you feel about the subject, if anything at all. I love watching you work. I also wonder if a painter has a fear of doing too much–and can that be undone, or not doing enough. Maybe the word is overworking? I think too much about enoughness and thus painting a drawing stick figures or out of shape this or that registers for me as a failure. I understand that a person cannot be talented at everything. I also understand that sometimes a person has natural talent and other times one must work for years with a medium to work out how it flows and moves on the paper/canvas. I’ll stop now :D

Love it!

What a beautiful portrait! Great work, Elena.

Beautiful, Elena. It doesn’t look “fussy.” :) Lots of beautiful, rich colors in this piece, and lots of detail, too. And although you worked weeks on this painting, it looks as if you painted it very loosly in a short amount of time. Who is your model? She is lovely.

Beautiful, deep color. Love how the red in her hair echoes the carpet.

Oh Elena, this piece just vibrates with love. So much love, I felt it and tears came to my eyes. <3

You capture emotions so well. Amazing work!

A very beautiful painting! Lovely brushwork.

as always, the layers of light and color leave me breathless and WIDE awake!

Yeh….your back and with a beautiful piece, feeling a lot of emotions and energy on this one. Bravo!

beautiful as usual i not sure what the terms mean but it works amazing

or, “Resurrection, Tuesday morning” :)

Simply wonderful.

Simply wonderful.

Just beautiful. The rich color gives stunning depth and contrast. Very alive. All of which adds to the emotional punch. I admire your bold closeups. Making the image that tight works very well with the style.

Your portraits are simply amazing, this size is incredible as a close-up. This series in particular, the ability to bring a relaxed young person and their raw emotions to the canvas to me, speaks to your incredible skill and talent. Love your new technique yes, you have mastered the heavy texture with beautiful rich colors. I love this one Elena ~

Your strategy makes sense, though it can be tough to abandon works. Can’t wait to see what makes it through the pruning!

Lovely Rouges

I’ve been wondering where you’ve been. Can’t wait to see your latest offerings.

Good luck with your painting! Can’t wait to see the finished product.

I can’t wait to see your work! And I love to see someone dancing and taking the risk of falling once in a while. :)

With every fall a great accomplishment follows. Enjoy the changing season and the beauty it brings. We will all be here awaiting your next masterpiece. :)

I just can’t wait to see! ♥

Falling is good. You have to find your way back up and sometimes it is a new path that gets you there. Falling or dancing your work is always inspirational. I can’t even run with scissors let alone dance with a brush!

Sounds like a creative battle, Elena!!!!! Can’t wait to see the outcome! :-)

I love the colors you captured in this photo! It is such an interesting time of year, full of possibilities. Looking forward to seeing what you’ve been up to!

Your artwork is incredible, always, Elena.

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It *is* beautiful…it feels so “deep in thought”…”pensive”. Love it :)

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Great work as always!

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You are so talented. If this is quick, I can’t imagine what slow would produce. Wow!

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Such a great portrait, Elena! Captured your thoughts!!! :-)

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Fabulous work Elena, once again you manage to amaze me of your exceptional artistic creativity and skill. This is a fantastic self-portrait, beautiful rendering of light and darks – wow. I love how you capture emotion in your portraits and this is no different – beautiful skin tones, the angle and slack in your face is fantastic, and wonderful texturing/color choices for your hair. One of my favorite of yours!

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Nice! Original way to represent a self portrait, and it shows lots of introspective. It´s as if something is baking in that mind..!

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your “quick” is astonishing! another stunning image.

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Oh, — this is heavy. From very liberated approach and the resonances shared with young or even small models, I was guessing you as a cheeky big eyed woman.
Now I realized, you possess much dark and heavy philosophy behind.

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Your ‘quick self portrait’ is amazing!

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Such emotion captured. Stunning as always Elena!

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You are amazing!!

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An engaging, humble and moving portrait, Elena. Brimming with feeling.

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I think its very beautiful and expressive.
As you are the artist though, I understand your feeling for a looser painting.
I enjoy your style very much :)

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I think the hair highlights her expression

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She looks so alive!Amazing hair,everything fabulous!! :)

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The eye does get drawn to the hair (brilliantly done!), but like Dona said, its frames the expression. Great work!

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I like the hair detail….. :)

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That happens to me too Elena, sometimes you just keep working and afterwards is when you realize you developed too much details. In any case it´s very well done, and I´m one who thinks that in order to express more with less, you must dominate the technique. ; )

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If this one kept an expression taken a back, I wonder what would happen
with the full expression —– may be the canvas would start to rattle ? :-D

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OMG! This is an amazing work of art Elena! exquisite

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I understand what you are saying, Elena, but I was drawn to her expression first, and then I thought the hair was amazing! It’s an awesome piece! :)

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Oh wow Elena, seriously now this is just fantastic. Your ability to capture the human spirit is incredible – she is totally relaxed as her smile, eyes and relaxed facial muscles show, use of light perfect – shining on her face and hair, and her hair is incredible for its fullness and textured peppered with awesome color dynamics.

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Since you pointed it out, I focused on that. However, I think the wild obstinate, other colored hair went along with the joy and freedom of expression of the subject. They also match the light both literal and aura of the subject. I might feel a wee tinge of anger at the wish to change it at all hahaha-silly meeeeee.

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I think it’s absolutely perfect just the way it is. Perfecteration.

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It looks perfect to me. She looks so alive, happiness coming through her pores.

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beautiful girl, beautiful work

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Nice work Elena!! It´s good to know how you develop your painting since it gives it more merit. Sometimes people don´t appreciate or don´t know the way it´s done and once they are told, the result of it gains importance .

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Lovely portrait Elena.

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Beautiful, Elena. Really lovely lighting in this.

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each time you post a painting, i think, “this is my favorite!” i am fickle. i love them all!

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another amazing piece of work! Really love the lighting…

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Alla prima agrees with you! Fabulously brilliant!

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She’s hiding something.

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She’s pretty but I don’t trust her. Lol

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I love this one, Elena. She looks happy, but kind of like she knows something we don’t know!! I love her expression, the job on the lighting you did is fantastic! :)

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Excellent!!

Now this expression is easy to define, but the question remains: what is she looking at?

Brilliant stuff!

This is a fine series. I like the positioning of the face in the frame. I’m also intrigued by the expression you’ve captured. I can’t believe your model held this pose for an extended period!

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Well done!

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Beautiful, Elena.

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This is wonderful!!

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Very nice portrait, very well done! Congratulations!
Thank you so much for sharing with us the wonderful paintings created by you.
Have a wonderful day, dear Elena. Big hugs, Ştefania <3 :)

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Love the wide smile :-)

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This has ‘edge’.

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Amazing!! I don’t know what else to say…it is beautiful believe me!

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