Two paintings

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Two paintings done at art school over a couple of day sessions each.
I tend to make paintings from the model look not like portraits but more as generic paintings of people, since it is very difficult to incorporate personal aspects when working in a class.

Ilaria

[Carlos Ygoa]

Ilaria,

Been a while. What fresh brushwork! I like them very much. Spontaneity and sureness of stroke. It is very clear that you like what you do.
Enhorabuena.

(P. S. Real Madrid is looking more like the Italian slelection this year , no? More reason for you and your husband to come over...Forza
Madrid ???

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Carlos, today just one word: Kaannnavarooooooo !!

Thanks for your comment, I haven't been posting recently since I didn't paint portraits. I have been working rather on still-lifes with the aim of loosen up even more without having to listen to clients' comments on likeness. Very unstressful !

I am planning a show for the end of next year so I am trying to build up a consistent body of work to choose from.
Weekend in Madrid is always in top priorities
Ilaria

[Marina Dieul]

Ilaria,
what a delight to see your colors !
I especially like the first one : those blue, purple, pink and grey ! I just finished eating, and this is my dessert. Delicious!

[Alexandra Tyng]

Ilaria,

What joyously fresh color! In the light side the colors are so clear, in the shadows they are deliciously transparent and the value and chroma changes are so subtle, yet not blended to disguise the shifts. A real delight for the eyes! I, too, especially like the first one. I love the colors of the whole composition, and I love how you suggested his eyes and eyelashes. Although you may feel it is somewhat generic, I get a real sense of him as an individual.

[Chris Saper]

I love the sculptural quality of these paintings, and the way you've created volume with your subtle color shifts. Thanks for posting..

[Jan Verhulst]

Beautiful colors and atmosphere in these paintings imo.

[Sharon Knettell]

Lovely sensuous color. Beautiful atmosphere. ( I think I repeated someone here!)

I was thinking today as I was struggling to paint a really lovely young girl from life, how much easier and stress free it would be simply to use a photo. Then I realized, that it was the challenge of figurative painting from life that made the work so exciting for me. It was like cliffhanging, a wrong turn there etc and it is all lost, except for the intense sweetness of nailing it!

[Mischa Milosevic]

Ilaria, this is quite refreshing to see. It reminds me of the after class student portrait studies. While at the academy, in Florence, after regular class time, a selective group of students, from the academy, would do portrait studies two days a week for two weeks, four sittings. One student would sit the others would paint or draw. I miss that.

Your studies are excellent! You should be quite pleased for these express great leaps of improvement in your work. As you well know still life's are exceptional for studies of value and color but are only a tools needed when painting a portrait from life. You are well on your way Ilaria and you have such talent.

Wish you the best.

p.s. how much is a box of fusions there, i need to get a new supply soon?

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Thank you Sharon. These one have the added bonus of not being commissions, it takes away the pressure.
Somehow, though, I start thinking that it is not always easier to paint from a photo: you must be true to the photo to the millimetre.

When painting from life you can get less into details and stop as soon as you have enough of the person there.

I have recently painted a lot of still-lifes and I am getting faster and faster: I am learning when to stop.
Discussing with my tutor she said: allow the viewers to finish the picture as they want.
I am not particularly fond of vignette but I love when a painting is not only about the subject but also talks about the process of viewing and elaborating, and maybe shows some moments of that process still happening.

Mischa, you are very kind and I am really happy to know that you can see how my journey in painting is progressing.
I have refrained from taking commissions for a time, now I am slowly starting again and I hope the work I have been doing will creep into future portraits.
Mischa, what are fusions ?
Ilaria