Pietro

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

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

[Marina Dieul]

Beautiful, Ilaria!
I really like the direction that your work is taking.
He looks totally angelic on this one too, but I can imagine the challenge to paint him. So I give you a double Bravo!!

[Dan Landrie]

really like the lost and found edges in this one, beautiful work.

[Mischa Milosevic]

Ilaria, I like the way you have developed your skin tones painterly, clean mixtures and with a excellent representation of natural skin texture. Grate job!