ooh this is very lovely. he's so adorable. you should put master bates in the background lol. (he's from that book right?) Gawd i love Dickens so much more now.

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Ringo: John thought of the name Beatles, and he'll tell you about it now.
John: It's just that it means Beatles, isn't it, you know? That's just a name, like "shoe."
Paul: "The Shoes." See, we could've been called "The Shoes," for all you know."

lol...yeah. I'll be sure to draw a picture of him for you. Dickens is so clever..Master Bates...haha

Wow! really, really cool! I love how you painted this! It looks fabulous!

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"A man never deserves a sword until he can hold it by the blade. His hand may bleed; but it is then that he sees the Cross."

~ The Return of Don Quixote by G.K. Chesterton

hey, thanks! ^^ i spent a long time on it!!

You're very welcome!

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"A man never deserves a sword until he can hold it by the blade. His hand may bleed; but it is then that he sees the Cross."

~ The Return of Don Quixote by G.K. Chesterton

This is so sweetly charming. Definitely put a background in. Not sure what it should be. Something unobtrusive which doesn't detract from Oliver.

Thanks!

Poor artless, naive, & innocent Oliver. Your child could easily be that. A background specifically for this picture? Perhaps two pairs of shoes--one woman's and one man and legs and pants ascending directly behind hin suggesting Nancy and Sykes or Fagan. Or Nancy hand or arm on his shoulder or, similar to the first, two pair of hands on his shoulders--one woman's and and a man's. A larger space behind him: a slum, clothes hanging out of windows, windowed-tenaments, faceless people milling in the street, doorways, alleys. Or a Nancy and Fagan standing him in the farther background.

I assume our Oliver is leaning back on this left hand. The hand does not look right to me especially the size of it and its positioning to the other fingers. And does the size of the hand at foreground vary that much with the one on the floor? Nice job.