I am moved by all this praise, your appreciation matters so much to me. Sharon, I am honoured you like them, Garth your words filled me with joy, I now feel the responsability to work more and more and raise my standards in every work.
Jan thank you very much as well for your comments. That's the story of the girl: on the first day she was really tough, I hate this, I hate that, don't touch my hair and so on. The second time all of a sudden she changed and was tame: we started talking, I told her stories, we became friends. What happened is that the mother did not find that challenging look the girl puts up in THEIR relationship and she was puzzled. I decided, instead of doing the usual coward thing I did before, which is trying to change the portrait and please the client, to take a firm stand. I said that to me the girl was really sweet, that maybe the sweetness she sometimes hid, this time she wanted to show, and that I could not paint an attitude that was not there. In brief, I posed as the-great-artist-who-does-you-the-favour-of-painting and it worked.
This was a lesson for me: to stand strongly behind your work, if you show doubt these control freak mums (this category includes me) will just eat you up. Also is good quoting the appreciation of other people who saw the portrait in the studio ( great experts);I said that I liked so much the painting that I was not sure I wanted to give it away, thus reinforcing the point that the painting is MINE and not hers, even if she has paid for it.
Treat'em badly and they'll love you?!
Ilaria
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