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From a photo of Demi Lovato. I made this as a present for my youngest daughter, who is one of Demi's biggest fans!
 

Internationally renowned photographer David Noton very kindly gave me permission to use his photograph Portrait of a girl, Vang Vieng, Laos as the basis for a practise painting - and I did warn him that the results of my efforts would probably end-up bearing very little resemblance to his excellent photo. I wasn't wrong!!

If you check-out the link, above, you will see that the subject of the photo was a child - whereas my feable attempt has made her look like a young lady. Still, even though this looks nothing like the girl in the photo, I kind of like her strange expression - and I did have fun trying with this one!
 
Members can view and comment on this image in the Gallery at:
http://www.artfreaks.com/forums/index.php/gallery/image/6225-vang-vieng-girl-in-her-early-twenties/
 
Prints and gift items featuring this image are available on ArtWanted.com at:
http://www.artwanted.com/imageproducts.cfm?ID=1271385&RID=23179

Here is a free WinZip file with a collection of 25 of my very first (and extremely crude!) attempts at pastel painting.
 
The zip file has been uploaded, more as a means of testing the feasability and usefulness of the whole zip thing with the Downloads module of ArtFreaks.com. I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has trouble extracting the individual image files from this zip archive.

Manila Bay and Roxas Blvd. along the Ermita/Malate shoreline. Night photo, taken from the 32nd floor of a high rise building in Ermita. You can get a high quality print of this at ArtWanted.com