Featured Faces in Paint
April - June 2008

The FaceModel Feature is permanently changing to Featured Faces in Paint.

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This feature is dedicated to my work in painting either of the following:

1. Member of the media, such as celebrity. (This may include an actor, comedian, musician, model, news reporter).

2. A hero of society dedicated to saving lives, making life better for others or working to presvere our freedoms. (This may include nurses, paramedics, firefighters, police and military).

There is no cost to this feature, all the promotion/recognition all free, being just one artist making a statement about someone who deserves to be immortalized and remembered on a Canvas, as oil paintings will remain for generations, even centuries.

How to be Featured

The Artistry of Marc Eliuk, is featuring:

Ashleigh

Ashleigh is a nurse from Saint John NB, and is simply gorgeous, (although she was originally chosen as a face model, she fits the new feature exceedingly well). Her inner warmth and outer beauty, made her an ideal candidate for initially painting as a face model. The challenges I had in painting was that Ashleigh's beautiful symmetry causes her to look different in various lightings and I endeavored to capture her inner beauty on canvas while painting her flawless features. I believe this was successful and I hope to paint one more of Ashleigh before the end of this feature.

(Click the painting for a higher resolution image)

This is the first of Ashleigh, yet it is not as beautiful as she is in real life. It's amazing, people walking by at exhibits and also the Saint John City Market would stop in their tracks just to admire this painting of Ashleigh,above all my other works, many have said that this is one of their favorite works by me. I believe that this work will only gain value over time and might one day be more well-known that I will be.

This is based on an earlier photo of Ashleigh and again her appearance changes with different lightings; therefore, I decided to paint this one as my interpretation of Ashleigh. It is based on her appearance but I changed a few things to reflect my perception of her:

1. The hairstyle was made to look more natural to suit how I perceive her as naturally beautiful;

2. I painted a subtle "glow" around her, which is what I often see around warm, gentle people as Ashleigh truly is. This is the first time I've tried this effect with my painting as I like to make the warmth come directly from the face and the eyes. I believe this experiment worked with further enhancing her warmth as I see her.

Thank you Ashleigh

Featured Faces:

Actress Geri Hall (Dec/08-Feb/09)

Supermodel Emily Sandberg (Sep-Nov/08)

Comedian Tracey MacDonald (Jul-Aug/08)

Ashleigh (April-Jun/08)

Monique (Jan-Mar/08)

Dayna (2007)