New Portrait: Georgina

Posted on 05/27/201005/27/2010 by Arabella Proffer

Here’s a new little portrait, 5×7″ oil on panel. I named her “Georgina” after the Helen Mirren character in this Peter Greenaway film.

I wasn’t sure about this color combination with the sort of olive green, but it turned out weird and I kind of like it!

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Painter of ladies, gents, punks, cats, the history of medicine, and biomorphic organisms. Terminally ill with cancer, but whatever. I have a bionic leg. View all posts by Arabella Proffer

3 thoughts on “New Portrait: Georgina”

OneMoreTime 05/27/20105:08 pm Reply

whoa…..VERY cool.

I look at her and think, ‘vicious corporate Barbie-doll chick.’
Like someone you definitely wouldn’t want to mess with!

I’ll have to try and find that movie (do you have a photographic memory
or just an extremely extensive movie collection? 🙂 Helen Mirren’s pretty cool…actually, I think alot of those gals from those years were pretty cool and classy. They could take you down without mussing their hair or smudging their white gloves…..
vendettabella 05/27/20107:30 pm Reply

Thanks! She doesn’t look like the character at all, just in name only. Oddly my movie collection isn’t as big as it could be, I guess I should thank Netflix for saving me the trouble of buying stuff.
Vishi 06/01/20104:54 pm Reply

I love your portraits. You have a knack for combining the new with historical references to classic portraiture. On this piece, I like the color combination. Great work and thanks for making lovely artwork .