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Jimmie, Elizabeth, thanks a lot for your comments.
As I said this was a bit of a fortunate accident: I normally work and rework my faces many times, even more if I am painting from a photo.
But the more I paint the more I realize how actual ability at the easel is influenced by many conditions: in this little work I had nothing to lose, I was not under pressure to finish this, as these people are in Italy and I'll see them again in a month time, I had plenty of time to do another one if this didn't work out.
I was trying out blocking in with a monochrome underpainting as per Richard Schmidt's book that I just got.
Well, it's a bit like Freud said, how many people are in a bed? So, how many people are behind the easel? The artist, the client, the mother in law, the grand mother who finds the girl sad.... so many people bothering with the most irrelevant comments...
Here it was as if I was painting for myself, that works for me.
Lisa, come on, we all saw your sari painting, you pretty much showed you can do anything you like
Ilaria
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