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Originally Posted by Garth Herrick
As a photographic portrait, I love your reference as it is. Interpreting this successfully into a painting, as you have shown us is unfortunately problematic, since the complexity of the bannister begins to overwhelm the softness of the boy; yet it works as a photograph.
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Ilaria, if this is not too off topic, here is an example of an architectural element that I needed to almost completely diminish to make the painting work. The full work can be seen here:
Human on My Faithless Arm
Can't wait to see your resolved portrait!
Garth
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