Camelia

Oil painting on linen 24 in. x 24 in./ 60 cm. x 60 cm.

1_Grand Prize in International Artist Magazine Challenge No.82 " People & Figures".
2_Finalist in the Figurative Category, Salon International 2013/2014, Art Renewal Center,USA.
3_ Salon International 2014, International Museum of Contemporary Masters of Fine Art, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

It is the expression of an intimate moment of a woman contemplating her youthful image in a mirror. I took up the challenge to paint her garment of laces with all its graceful folds, its partial transparency that lets her golden skin to show through here and there. My pleasure came from painting her clothes and her hair falling in waterfall as well as in praise of her feminine body in the light.