Sergio,
I like it, it's a very strong portrait and the textures are so rich. Could you tell a bit about the model? Are the Yakut's a Polar tribe?

Dear Thomasin,

I'm waiting for that fortune since too long
to be really interested in it :)
As for the competitions,
do you think those who judge us are better than we are?

Actually I loved your nude paintings,
there is something innocent and astonishing in them...

Best regards Sergio

:) I agree,
I like my work.

I wanted to create something perfect.
So I gave myself as much time as i needed...
The bar was set up not in function of the technique
but in function of the emotion which the viewer
had to feel meanwhile in front of it.

Thanks for the comment,
loved your charcoal, sanguine mix
very surprising!

You don't need to be taught...
Your mountain landscapes shows that you have everything a painter need to progress by yourself. (the arch)
Technical progression will come by itself with a lot of work
and other's advices can sometimes only harm...

I prefer it to be a delight to the soul.
Loved your lobster!

More or less one week yes
although hard to calculate
there are around 4-5 layers on each eye,
between each layer 2 days of drying
the color tissue of the eye is made with the trembling of my hands...

Liked your still life with the mandarins...
Sometimes big surfaces are taking away our attention from the essential... :)

Thank you Garth! Hope to see you then in person again!

The idea with the texture was to diversify it to the minimum
so that the essence of the model would shine through the painting
without being disturbed "by" the painting itself...

So I would say, there was basically no work on the texture,
the effort was made on a kind of mystical presence of the person in front of you...

My brother, when he looked at it,
stayed with his mouth open for a few minutes... so surprising was the human (or inhuman) presence of Anna...

That picture of my brother glazing with his open mouth
(it's very hard to astonish him, he's a phlegmatic lawyer)
I think was the best recompense for me from the picture till now...
Although I believe that the "Yakut" roots of the model
(Yakutia is the land where all the shamans, mammoth bones and diamonds are of Siberia see the attachment of a typical yakut dress) must bring me more unexpected stuff...

As for the model...
Huh.
It's a whole story... Too long to talk about it.