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Alas he does look like me... I can see it more in the portrait that looking at him in real life!
Thanks to all of you for looking and commenting.
The blue in the shirt has two reasons, breaking the outline so that there are not three different areas of local colour, like a jigsaw puzzle, and shattering the illusion of reality to make the picture again look just like a flat surface with paint on top.
I really hope I will be able to paint more from life, it helps enormously for the "presence"!
I also realised tthat in many of my portraits the sitter looks away, and I intend to paint more people staring at me. Keeping a private practice to try out things and learn about your own work is always important.
Ilaria
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