The Gentleman's Secret by Jan19
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Description
The old man lived alone for many years and died quietly, also alone. His heirs found plenty of business documents when they cleaned his house, but only a few personal effects. An ornate pocket watch lay in the top drawer of his desk, however, alongside a battered billfold and a nicked wooden smoking pipe -- and a miniature portrait of an exotic beauty, inside a delicate frame of old gold.
"Who's this girl?" his children asked themselves. "She doesn't look anything like our mother. Was she Papa's first love maybe, or even our long lost sister?"
Nobody knew the identity of the sultry lady, and nobody knew what to do with her miniature either. Since the picture obviously meant something to the old man though, they decided to tuck it into the pocket of his burial suit.
If only they'd taken the picture out of the frame and read the inscription on the back...
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*Femmina texture on HW's Dawn figure, courtesy of realityPaint's texture converter, with Maleficia face morph. EZSkin2 effects added. Frame made with a PS action and textured with one of Roberta's layer styles. Pose by lunchlady and background by Ravyns. Lights by ironman13 and hair by Ali with Touchable textures.
Comments (23)
All right tell me what it says on the back....LOL Can't leave me hanging since I took the time to read it all. Very nice work. I haven't been able to get the texture converter to work yet. This looks great. I should give it another try. It may be because I used the 64 bit and Poser nine is 32 bit....just don't know. Got too frustrated and quit. You give me hope though, because this looks great.
Very beautiful portrait my friend, loved her expression, very well done!
Thank you! :-) I couldn't get the texture converter to work right, at first. Then I started making a separate folder for each V4 texture that I converted. I save V4, with texture, in the folder as a cr2 (character). In the texture converter, I access that file, then tell texture converter to put the converted file for Dawn in that same folder. I get asked to locate V4's obj file, because V4 is in another runtime, but that's the only hitch now. I hope that helps. What was on the back...come on, muse, give up the secret. Ok, on the back of the photo were the words "Eileen, My English Rose" and "Spring, 1912." And in a different handwriting, "Father's first wife, lost at sea, April 15, 1912."
Thanks, mgtcs. :-) I was communicating with the muse, while you were typing. ;-)
Wow Jan, I simply loved this presentation. Not only is the portrait beautiful, but I absolutely enjoyed the story behind it. Thank you also for taking pity on us and providing us with the answer to what was on the back of the photo.
Bittersweet ... and most lovely.
Lovely!
Nice portrait
Fascinating and beauty portrait my dear!!!Bravissima!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
Thanks, you all. :-) That texture transformer is something else, and character textures combined with EZSkin2 can yield nice effects! As to what was on the back of the photo...well, I didn't know either, until the muse took pity on me! I'm guessing, since the old guy kept the picture, that it must've been of his mother -- and the old guy must've lived a loooong life, too! Then again, maybe he just developed a fascination with the woman who went down with the Titanic. Weird how these stories develop, isn't it? Thank you all, again, for the comments! I enjoyed rendering this. It was cool to work with all those awesome products on the market here.
WOW... It's a marvelous portrait... fantastic expression also ... Remarkably done !
Thanks! :-) This is one of those that just came out of the blue. I like for the muse to show me he's still hanging around. ;-)
Beautiful portrait and good story!
beautiful portrait.
Thank you! :-)
Excellent portrait ... and thanks a lot for the information about what was written on the back of the image. Otherwise I would have had sleepless nights!!! ;-)
Ha. :-) My muse is quirky. But thanks for the comments! I appreciate them very much!!
Stunning portrait and a great story!
Thanks, GrandmaT
such a beauty and what a romatic and exciting story! what a pity they didn't read the words on the back of this miniature! ;o(((( thx for the thoughts and story! ;o)
Glad you liked it, sossy. :-)
Wow! She kinda looks like Liv Tyler! She's beautiful. :) Love the lace background and of course, the frame. ;)
I think the layer style set actually inspired this image, Roberta. :-) Thanks for the comment!