OK, I got waaay off track there for a couple of weeks and am very behind, but I’m reluctant to give up on this project of mine. Plus, when I saw Grace walking towards me today I had to snap her portrait. I did try and get back into it earlier this week but all of a sudden people were turning me down. They were all friendly about it but still…rejection is tough!
This is the very beautiful Carlene, she and I are members of the same church so I took this portrait this afternoon after the service while everyone else was having tea.
Back to approaching strangers I met John walking through Greystones and he was so nice. I’m constantly surprised (in a good way) at just how friendly people are. I’m not completely happy with this one…the light was fading and one thing about this project is you have to take what conditions you get so there’s no moving people or positioning them so the light is better. Hence this one is a little blurry and the reflections in the glasses hide his eyes. Still, this project isn’t all about being technically perfect (thankfully!) so there’s no hiding the blurry ones 😀
This is Bryan, one of my animation students and the creator of the excellent film I’m linking to below. He animated this on paper, scanned it into the computer and animated it using Flash. Funny stuff:
And I was doing so well with getting a portrait a day. Hmph! Really rubbish weekend…just one of those weekends where everything I set out to do didn’t work out. Ho hum. One word we always get Eve to say when things have gone a bit wrong and she’s getting all frustrated or upset with herself is “Nevermind.” So that’s what I’m telling myself now and getting back on track. Speaking of Eve, this portrait was taken at a fancy dress party but Eve wears this dress all the time. We have to hide it so we can wash it from time to time.