Cynthia Reed

Oh i just love & adore this one (well i really love all your work i’ve seen this far), she is just so sweet & adorable, a determined reader with only candlelight, & it must be cold as shes very mittens. & love the little Bookworm keeping her company, Excellent Work Paul!!!!!

This is very cool. It’s so Gorey-esque! Would make an awesome tee!

Wonderful image! Love to see a love of books :)

fantastic work wish i had the talent

you works are brilliant…....WOW!!!

xx

Great work Paul!

This is really good, kinda dark/creepy/cute! Brilliant xxx

study and book reading is, good! for the ladies learning! nice drawing

i love it!

I love this.
A touch of Wednesday Adams methinks
But cute! lol
xXx

Cute little bookworm girl, great pen and ink drawing.

I admire this one alot….it reminds me of my sister

Awesome piece of Art !!!!! Well done !!!

Wonderful, love all your illustrations.

great stuff! Dynamic image

i love this, it should be a story!

love this character, and th style is great!! love it!

cool character and again i love the style ! spooky but sweet !

fabulous character .. she’s gorgeous.

Nice drawing and mood. I was this kind of girl, always reading fairytales and myths.

good illustration.

Cynthia Reed loves to read! :o)

Excellent, love the ray effect coming of the candle.

Cynthia Reed is a real great character. Your work is really good, unique and creatively detailed.

Wow! Your candlelight lighting technique is wonderful! Along with everything else, of course!
mel

Funny….I do the same thing!
mel

Adorable work. Great effect with the candle and the worm on the book

Great image, Paul. Humorous in the nicest way. You are so talented.

and what may I ask is she reading?

thought it might be….

Another little gem

Paul, this would have to be “Violet Cynthia Reed, 1908-1976”, the likeness you have created is so perfect, how I can see her all alone in her childhood home, “Mt. Pleasant”, a magnificent mansion high on a hill, and right here in Tassie…
I have read her book, “Daddy Sowed a Wind” several times, such an absorbing read, as it tells so much of her Tasmanian upbringing. Also read “A Bride for St. Thomas”, based on her experiences while training to be a nurse at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London. Oh she lived such a full life Paul, yet she had more than her fair share of heartache and tragedy. So truly sad such a beautiful person had to end her own life.
Thank you so much for sharing this Paul….you have such a truly unique talent….a talent to be treasured Paul….xxx
Carol

Fabulous!

A perfect bookworm image ;-)

This is great! It sort of reminds me of me when I was little and supposed to be asleep, with a flashlight and book under the covers….

Beautiful drawing, makes me think of the charachter, Liesel in ‘The Book Thief”, escaping to another time, i was a reader under the bedcovers too : )

I was convinced that I’d already commented on this. I just spotted it again today when I was reading the interview you did of Pinkyjain. I would be really pleased with myself if I could produce an image like this and I hope you are pleased with this also Paul. I’ve liked your work since the first day I saw it.

I like your images. In this, I like how Cynthia is wearing her gloves, socks and shoes when in a relaxed reading state. I guess it says something about her character, or the temperature.

I was looking through the comments and thought that no-one had cottoned onto the ‘book worm’ – but one person did :o) Love her little ‘self assured smile’ as if to say I am enjoying this and I am ‘clever enough to read it’. Reading by candlelight :o) Is the object beside her candle – her bookmark ?
I love the varying scale of her head to her body to her feet – which concentrates the viewers eyes on her big eyes and face. Very clever, subtle and cool.

Your artwork is like a pin sharp photo. I compare the detail of a photo to the detail of the artist. Anyone can draw – but only a few have that thing called ‘talent’ to go with it. Anyone can take a photo but to create emotion or fun or be inspired by anothers work – then thats the next level which you have attained.

I LOVE THIS….;)
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