Late post

[Garth Herrick]

Dear Ilaria,

This is a highly successful pair, with magical notes and passages. I have to look at and absorb these for a while to observe how you can say so much with such concise and assertive brushwork. We somehow know those are soft, rounded legs of a child, even though you employ the absolute minimum of planes and strokes in their depiction, and yet there is that contradictory solid chunky sculptural quality in those very brush strokes that prove your great talent. The compressed values make way for inventive interplay of colors, and the way they bleed beyond imagined edges is wonderful. I always look forward to your luminous creations; congratulations!

Garth

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Thank you so much to all of you for your kind comments.
Having the opportunity of being reviewed by artists like you does add a lot to my confidence. Even though my clients were very satisfied, the most important opinion for me is the competence of your comments here.
I am working on painting with more ease and freedom, but only you can really understand what a long way one has to go before aquiring those skills. Ignoring the outlines, working on edges, obliterating useless details, juxtaposing colours, they are all a product of thinking very hard, elaborating on the painting. You can't imagine how happy I am that this comes through at least to art-trained eyes.
I haven't been posting many works recently since I have been mainly painting still-life (I have a possible show in sight). Still life is unpressurized and allows me to practice and try new ideas, I hope that I will be able to transfer what I have been learning into future portraits.
Thank you again
Ilaria

[Tom Edgerton]

Ilaria--

Wonderful, simple and spontaneous! And I will use the above list of what you tried to remember as you were painting as a checklist for my own work.

Thanks--TE

[Chris Saper]

I agree with all- these portraits are engaging and compelling- a painter's dream to be be to find clients who see like artists.

Congrats.

[Jean Kelly]

Oh Ilaria, I like these! They are just infused with light and life.

Jean

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Thank you so much Tom, Chris and Jean for your nice compliments.
Tom, as soon as I think I have a good checklist something else comes up I didn't think about !
Ilaria