Governor of Nevada, Kenny C. Guinn

[Cynthia Daniel]

Beautiful, Michele!

[Henry Wienhold]

This is an absolutely brilliant portrait Michelle. Very well done.

[Enzie Shahmiri]

I love the way you have captured that intense gaze and strong character. I am very happy for you that all your hard work as resulted in such stunning work.Congratulations!

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Michele,

I just had to share this with you. Last night on the news I saw a short clip and immediatlly recognized the govenor based on your painting. It was like: "Hey, I know who this is!" with immediate realization: " that's the governor who Michelle painted!"

Pretty cool!

[Michele Rushworth]

He's supporting Mitt Romney in his presidential campaign and there was a big event in Nevada this week. Governor Guinn has "retired" from many different careers in the past: high school P.E. teacher, school board head, President of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, bank president, utilities company president, and most recently, Governor.

He told me he was really going to retire this time but now he's on the board of a bank again and is busy with the presidential campaign. We joked that he's really not the type of guy to sit by the pool or spend his days golfing. He's a very capable administrator and is well thought of by the people in his state, so he's always tapped to help with various important causes. It was a great honor to get to know him.

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Michele, what a confident work ! I like that the colour, all so simply played between the warms and the cool note of the shirt and the tie. The image is solid and tridimensional despite the almost flat black of the suit.
Beautiful
Ilaria

[Michele Rushworth]

Thanks!

The suit actually does have some three dimensionality to it. I find it difficult to photograph portraits with black suits (especially as the lower part of the figure disappears into the shadows). A correct exposure for the face usually means all the carefully painted dark greys just drop to black in the photo.