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This head and shoulders is a detail from a full figure painting. This little girl wearing a ballet tutu was so enticing that Ariane could not resist photographing her and then painting her portrait even though it was not the intended project. It now hangs in the artist's home. It was actually her sister who was to be painted this time. N.M.S.
"I took only one photograph of this child and painted this for myself. Because she was so fair complexioned this is the only painting where I used a very dark background. I have always purposefully used lighter and brighter backgrounds for children but I felt that this called for the contrast. Her flaxen hair required a great amount of white paint which was applied with a painting knife." A.B.