Johan picking flowers

[Michele Rushworth]

Much better integration of all the colors now and I like the softness. It still looks to me like there is too much light in the area between his upper lip and nose, though.

[Hanna Larsson]

I forgot the resource photo this time as well, but in my opinion, it is like that in the photo. But to make sure, I will go over it one more time tomorrow; even my mother said the same thing.

I will deliver it on Saturday on his mother's 50th birthday. They actually got it for Christmas although it wasn't done yet. They got a promise that I should do it. But now I have also bought a broad silver frame that I will put it in with a white mat. So that's the real present this time and I think they will be very glad to finally have the portrait at their house.

It will be a party there on Saturday, promotion oportunity! Especially since I will finally bring Ingemar (reading a book) to him and his wife because they are going to be there.

[Michele Rushworth]

Even if it's like that in the reference photo, you might want to change it anyway.

When you get near the completion of a painting, decisions need to be made as to what's right for the painting itself, on its own merits, not just copying what's in the reference.

My advice is to put the reference away at this point. Look at the painting in a mirror and also upside down. Make it so it looks right for how you want the painting to be, regardless of what was in the photo.

[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Hello Hanna,

I like a lot the general emotion coming from the picture. It seems to me that there is even something more than in the original photo, a kind of mystic feeling which you might find only in Sweden.

However closing my eyes and thinking backward, the impression from the head does not leave the same compact impression as from the flower fields.

Best regards,
Sergio