Chef serves me the perfect breakfast.
 

Just this morning I received news that my chef's painting ( high res image ) has been accepted into the annual show of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters !

Congratulations!

Congratulations, Ilaria, It's so well deserved.
Good luck.

Congratulations, Ilaria. Beautiful painting.

David

Many congratulations! Well deserved...

Congratulations Ilaria!

Ilaria, this is fantastic news, and I am so happy for you!
What a well-deserved honor for a fresh and memorable painting. Well done!

Beautiful work!
 

llaria,

I have loved your work from the beginning! You know how to simplify, how to place warm against cool, and your compositions are wonderful. All successes are well-deserved AND I know that they will continue to grow! Brava! :thumbside

Thank you all very much. Though the judges' choices seemed to me quite random in the past years (some embarassing inclusion and unexplainable rejections) getting through is always a great satisfaction especially when it also has a taste of revenge...

I'll post images of the show, let's hope for a better hanging than last time, when my girl's portrait was in a nice room but hanging at the same height of a male reclining nude
Ilaria

Ilaria, you know that I am in your corner rooting for you. I truly hope you take first prize and I believe that you can!

All the best to you

Congratulations!!! Very well deserved...I like this piece of yours VERY much.
Good luck in the show......[I]

Congratulations Ilaria !
This is wonderful news!

Congratulations, Ilaria!

Thank you so much !!
Ilaria

Dear Ilaria,

What exciting news! Keep us up to date:)

Ilaria, such a clever title on this thread--but I never guessed it was about your chef's portrait. That is simply wonderful news! Congratulations on your acceptance which is absolutely deserved. I can't wait to see pictures and hear results. I'm rooting for you.

Congratulations Ilaria!

Ilaria, I am late to this thread, but congratulations to you for your painting's well deserved acceptance; I love it! Thanks for the high resolution image too. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Garth

Congratulations, Ilaria! This is a perfect example of the slightly edgy version of contemporary portraiture as I imagine it to be in Europe - painterly, very fresh color, an asymmetrical composition and with the subject looking off, rather than at the viewer. Very different from the more traditional stuff many of us do here in the US.

Thanks to everyone, the opening is next week and I just can't wait.
Michele, in fact this is a work painted for myself, I am not sure I would get away with it if it were a commission ;)

Well, I just got the news that this painting has been sold.
I really didn't expect it, since the show is held mainly for the purpose of commissioning, but I am really glad anyway.
The buyer enjoys painting, has trained as a pastry chef and worked at a restaurant in Italy, I am happy that the painting goes to someone with which there is such a strong connection !
Ilaria

Wow! That is great news!

Congratulations, Ilaria,
this is the best recommendation to get, when people actually buy :thumbsup:

Great news, Ilaria!

Dear Ilaria,

This is such a beautiful painting and it deserved every bit of the recognition it has received. Congratulations on the sale!

This is great news, Ilaria !
Congratulations !