Emily - portrait.

By Paul D Robertson

Oils on canvas

This is the third in a series of portraits of a family of SEVEN children... the very youngest, and quite beautiful - her name is Emily. I still don't know their last name, I should probably find out. It was for some reason very very HARD TO DO. and took me a LONG TIME. I finished it round midnight at the Ocean Beach Hotel - I think it works. I would probably spend MORE time on it if I had carte blanche but the truth is that I don't, and I am pretty satisfied with the results, I guess.

The only possible problem that I may have is that she looks - well a bit sexy - and she is only 15. But I am concerned with what she will want, when she is 50 she can look at it and remember how beautiful she was. Also she is a dancer, so her physicality is important to her.