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ex-pect-ant
–adjective
1. having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
2. pregnant; expecting: an expectant mother.
3. characterized by expectations: an expectant attitude.
4. in expectation; expected; prospective: an expectant fortune.
–noun
5. a person who expects or who waits in expectation.

Is she expectant of child?
Is she expectant of someone to come to her?
Is she expectant of something more grand to happen?
Is she expectant of a change that will impact her in more ways than she can imagine?
Is she expectant that she will have disappointed someone... somewhere...?
Is she expectant of a punishment that she knows she cannot escape?

Only time will reveal her fate...

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Special thanks go out to Oibyrd, who featured this piece in her August 24, 2006 Journal (Part 1) !

Every aspect of the piece is intentional and the piece is finished (or at least it's not a Work In Progress, who knows if I might tweak it a bit). I've used a black background for two reasons, instead of laying her in a field of grass as I had originally envisioned: first, to draw attention only to her and less on where she might be and secondly, to make the viewer themselves slightly expectant, perhaps hoping for more information about her and feeling the same unease that she is probably feeling.

I've turned on Advanced Critique... please do so without fear of offending me.

For closeups, see: Expectant Closeups in my Scraps !
For a comparison of this piece with lighter skin tone, per deviant suggestion, see: "Comparison of 'Expectant' Tone" in my Scraps !

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Digital painting using ArcSoft's photoIMPRESSION 4 (© 2001) for 15+ hours and cropped using HP Image Zone Plus.

Quick credits for some stock photographs used for reference in this painting:

I used the piece "Black Wing Internal" from KasStock for reference.
Angel model is me "Lisolette-Stock012" from Lisolette-Stock

Description
ex-pect-ant
–adjective
1. having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
2. pregnant; expecting: an expectant mother.
3. characterized by expectations: an expectant attitude.
4. in expectation; expected; prospective: an expectant fortune.
–noun
5. a person who expects or who waits in expectation.

Is she expectant of child?
Is she expectant of someone to come to her?
Is she expectant of something more grand to happen?
Is she expectant of a change that will impact her in more ways than she can imagine?
Is she expectant that she will have disappointed someone... somewhere...?
Is she expectant of a punishment that she knows she cannot escape?

Only time will reveal her fate...

*******************************************
Special thanks go out to Oibyrd, who featured this piece in her August 24, 2006 Journal (Part 1) !

Every aspect of the piece is intentional and the piece is finished (or at least it's not a Work In Progress, who knows if I might tweak it a bit). I've used a black background for two reasons, instead of laying her in a field of grass as I had originally envisioned: first, to draw attention only to her and less on where she might be and secondly, to make the viewer themselves slightly expectant, perhaps hoping for more information about her and feeling the same unease that she is probably feeling.

I've turned on Advanced Critique... please do so without fear of offending me.

For closeups, see: Expectant Closeups in my Scraps !
For a comparison of this piece with lighter skin tone, per deviant suggestion, see: "Comparison of 'Expectant' Tone" in my Scraps !

***************************************
Digital painting using ArcSoft's photoIMPRESSION 4 (© 2001) for 15+ hours and cropped using HP Image Zone Plus.

Quick credits for some stock photographs used for reference in this painting:

I used the piece "Black Wing Internal" from KasStock for reference.
Angel model is me "Lisolette-Stock012" from Lisolette-Stock