Face Your Fears

My step-daughter, Allissa, gave me permission to paint this picture taken of her in her well-travelled dress on a felucca on the Nile. The reasons for the name "Face Your Fears" were two-fold; one regarding her travels around the globe to climb the worlds highest peaks as a single woman, and the other regarding my facing this first large piece at the beginning of my renaissance as an artist. I took some time staring at the paper before embarking on the beginning strokes of my pencil to sketch it out. Daunting....