This piece was completed in February 2009 and begun in February 2008. The beginning was done while participating in a class at the Ocean County Artist's Guild; the model posed for 1 session each week over a three week period, posing for 20 minutes and taking a short break. I never heard her play the cello.
The unfinished painting sat in my attic studio for nearly a year. In January 2009 I decided to complete this painting and submit it to the Ocean County Senior Citizen art show, held at Ocean County College. I decided that I would try to give the setting as if it were at a performance. Her face seems full of concentration, perhaps on the conductor, and somewhat concerned. The painting was almost completely reworked and completed in April. I plan to show the work in progress digitals I took to demonstrate the reworking process that I went through.
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