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[Michele Rushworth]

Just FYI: a tripod and the self timer setting on your camera will eliminate all camera shake when photographing your paintings. No need for a cable release or wireless shutter release device.

[Mary Sparrow]

Kim,
This is really beautiful, I have come to look at it several times.
Michelle is right, and even if you don't have a tripod handy, the timer on a table or stool works too.

[Patricia Joyce]

Kim,

Just beautiful. I am transfixed by the hand holding the flowers. Great tension in her fingers and they have that long and lanky look just like the model. Also really like the pose and composition. I like the size of the dragonfly. You can tell she is long, tall; I think it's appropriate that the dragonfly be large also - mythic!!

[Kimberly Dow]

Thank you Michele for the suggestion - I have a tripod, but the thing just fell apart. I need to find a little screw somewhere in my car....

Thanks Mary & Patricia - I appreciate it!

[Jean Kelly]

Beautiful job, Kim. You've obviously found a model who can inspire you to set the bar higher! I'm curious about the dragonfly. Ours (in Wisconsin) are iridescent violet and blue to blue green. Are Texas dragonflies more brown?

Jean

[Kimberly Dow]

Thanks Jean! That dragonfly was based on a Yahoo picture - but the ones I have seen here vary. Huge oranges ones in my backyard last week - very bright rusty/orange. Then at the river this weekend I thought I was looking at violet little flowers, but when I got closer I realized they were hundreds of mating dragonflys. I've seen green ones too. I wish I could have caught an orange one - it was very interesting.

[Matthew Severson]

Gorgeous! Im a great admirer of your work!

I don't think the Dragonfly is too large. I use to be a huge insect collector when I was younger, and this looks alot like a brown-spotted yellow wing, which, if I remember - is a large species.