Oh Ilaria - I really love this, such presence and freshness and direct response here. I am coming back to study this carefully - what Garth said has really got me thinking about the wisdom of limiting your palette when working from life. (I love the spot of red in your son's hair, I just noticed that.)
Next time you do this I personally would love to see photos of your work in progress, hint hint.*
I wonder if everybody seeing this painting really understands how very difficult this painting must have been to execute. Your accuracy is very impressive. When painting children from life you are really painting the memory of children and you must give them edge space - lots of it - before you nail them down to a boundary in space. (They are even worse than the gardenias I've been trying to paint.) You have succeeded so well here!
*Edit: it just occurred to me how hard this could be, to take a photo every time you take a break while you paint a child... ! Maybe you could pay another child to take the photos. This must be another reason why God has blessed many of us with multiple offspring.
