Smiling Girl
graphite, ink, and charcoal
9" x 12" (23 x 30.5 cm)

This happy girl managed to keep smiling for the twenty minutes or so that this portrait took to do. Her boyfriend was sitting across from her while she sat for the portrait. Whenever she looked at him her face lit up with a radiant smile.

Such adoration would probably make most of us nervous. Her boyfriend, however, seemed to be taking it all in stride.