Girl with the earring

[Blind Pew]

Hello folks. Here's my latest piece. I know it's not military or anything so please forgive me.
It's my first scratch built anything. It's sculpted in Magic Sculpt. It's inspired by a few versions of the Girl with the Pearl Earring, Jan Vermeers' classic painting. For example the lips and eyes are about 30% Scarlett Johannson. I'll settle for 30% of her anyday! I struggled with it for ages until I was happy enough to paint it. Thanks to those who encourged me along the way....you now who you are.
Any comments are most welcome, thanks again guys

 

[PJ Deluhery]

Wow! Fantastic work! Excellent sculpting and painting!

 

[Sambaman]

Nice work Anthony! One of many more to come I hope!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[captnenglish]

You have done Vermeer proud

 

[frank h]

Hi Anthony
Good to see this one finished ...you have made a nice job of it
thought it looked good ..when saw it in progress at Welling

Frank

 

[Guy]

Excellent painting and sculpting Anthony. I hope we see more of your creations.

 

[WPS]

Hi Anthony,

with work like this you don't need to apologise for it not beeing military.
I think it's amazing work for a first scratchbuild and hope you are inspired to do more special pieces.

greetings Willem

 

[jaime]

Wow! Nice work

 

[quang]

Hello Anthony,

I admit I've made a try myself on this one but it was unconvincing since I was torn between the original Vermeer painting and miss Johansson.

Anyhow congrats for your first scratchbuilt. What size is it?

Cheers,
Quang

 

[megroot]

good work

marc

 

[Roc]

Beautifully sculpted and painted, my compliments.
Thanks for sharing.

Cheers
Roc

 

[Blind Pew]

Thank you all for your kind comments.
When sculpting this I thought I'd miss painting but didn't one bit, so if anybody is considering swapping the brushes for the putty - give it a try.
Dear Quang, yes I know exactly what you mean, if you google on this image you get LOADS of different versions and if you're not careful... and to answer your question, she stands about 1 1/2 inches wide and just over 2 inches tall. The picture is double the actual size.

thanks again Guys