"Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thyself away art resent still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight."

Shakespeare, sonnet 47


Last portrait of sexy gorgeous Tina... Promise!!! Well, last one for today

After a couple of months without doing portraits, I got on it yesterday. Quite hard to come back. Maybe also cuz I hadn't had a couple of hours of sleep, the 48 hours before. Either way,I tried a few times in Opencanvas but it just wasn't working. So, back to Photoshop. Didn't get any easier. Fortunatly, I got a really cool effect, in my opinion, with the texturizer filter, and by duplicating the layer n setting it to hard light. Some Dodge Tool on the left side n... voilà!

Jan 29th 2007

Photo used for reference by Tina Ribeiro