Elle by Beth Thompson | ArtWanted.com

debbie braswell 29 Jul 2008

SHES SIMPLE BEAUTIFUL

pamela jones 08 Mar 2008

You are a wonderful artist, well done!

denise wilson 18 Dec 2007

wow! wow! wow! that's fricken awesome! beautiful!

marilena pilla 19 Mar 2007

wow!Very excellent

Crystal Sons 09 Nov 2006

Beautiful Portrait... Love the way you did the hair!

Kathi Perry 26 Dec 2005

Wow this is just beautiful. You have a lot of wonderful talent.

natasha koneva 23 Nov 2005

it is imazing art work! everything is so perfect especially the light!!!!

B.A. Davison 21 Oct 2005

Most beautiful portrait I've seen...such pencil passion

Jessica Hughes 29 Sep 2005

Wow! I'm curious about the amount of time you take on a portrait like this. Oh, this is so beautiful!

Artist Reply: Thank you, Jessica. This particular portrait took about 15 hours. These days I take three to four times as long. Thank you for the nice comments.

Eryn Tison 14 Sep 2005

Amazing! Perfectly flawless!

Ron Wood 06 Sep 2005

Beautiful! I love the contrast with her hair.

sam brunt 22 Aug 2005

easily mistaken for a photograph, very well done, i really like the contrast in this picture

Greg Joens 21 Aug 2005

nice use of stark light... makes it a lot more dramatic!

Christine brand 02 Aug 2005

Image of angel!!

Carolin Schweizer 27 Jul 2005

beautiful. The light in the picture makes it angellike.

Peter Leahy 22 Jul 2005

really beautiful portrait!!!

David Paul 22 Jul 2005

Fantastic, spiritual but devlish. Great work

Casey Catton 08 Jul 2005

WOW...GORGEOUS WORK! Im speechless!

Laura Smith 07 Jul 2005

Yeah that's some of the best pencil work I've ever seen. So well blended you can't really see one stroke of it! That hair going across her face looks whiter then the paper! Amazing.

michael carpenter 12 Jun 2005

This is beautiful (not just the subject) your rendering of light and shadow and capture of expression really brings this to life. Wow.

abby fox 12 Jun 2005

Wow you brought out excellent shading and use of light, she is so beautiful.

Antony Rufus 07 Jun 2005

Simply superb!!!

John Graham Inkson 16 May 2005

Outstanding. John

Steve Wonegeshik 04 Apr 2005

10 is not high enough. This is one of the best pencil portraits I have ever seen

Christina Toews 14 Mar 2005

Wow. This is a stunning picture. Well done with the light glaring on the hair, the shadowsn on the face. Very impressive! :)

Jan Viljoen 08 Jan 2005

Probably the best I've ever seen, you're really an inspiration!

Matthew Steffen 03 Jan 2005

Great work. What kind of Graphite pencil are you useing??

Artist Reply: I'm sorry for the late reply to your question, only just realized I could do this! haha Anyway, this piece was done with Faber Castell HB and 2B wood pencils. Thx for looking.

Mark Peterson 07 Dec 2004

Absolutely fantastic! Another beautiful piece Beth.

Cindy Kiser 16 Nov 2004

Beautiful work. Very pretty subject.

Stephanie Shimerdla 07 Nov 2004

Holy wow. The lighting... dramatic lighting like this with graphite is very hard to pull off, and you did it perfectly. One of the most beautiful graphite pieces I've seen. Really. :)