Two new portraits

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Dear Alex,

thank you for your compliment and your suggestions.
I am off to Italy this evening with the paintings in my car boot, and have my colours with me, so perhaps I'll manage to make the adjustment .
I can say that I did my best to go all the way, and I am very happy that you have recognized it, but I was dieing to get done with them, after almost three months that they are in my studio.

My concern in the last period of work was to really consider the background as important as the rest of the painting, and not dismissing it but really put it to use.
I prefer to paint people somewhere rather then with a neutral background, but I am conscious that it is dangerous and can take away rather then adding.

Unfortunately I won't be giving these out personally to the client and I will miss the 'presentation speak ', I trust they are good enough to speak for themselves.
Happy Easter
Ilaria

[Linda Brandon]

Ilaria, I like these very much. It seems to me that you have caught the physical energy of these two boys very well. There are a lot of nice compositonal things going on here, including the placement of the painting behind the second boys head, and I am a big fan of your palette..

I'm jealous of you. Three months is nothing! I am working on something similar to you (two brothers, two seperate paintings) - every time I think I'm done with it I just keep tweaking it again, despite all the preliminary plans I made, lifesize cartoons, etc.

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Linda, I was actually wondering what happened to your dyptich, the one I shamelessy copied, I mean !
Still at it? I am sure it will be gorgeous
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Ilaria

[Linda Brandon]

!!! I've been working on that diptych so long I forgot I showed you the initial layout. I've been looking at a lot of Burt Silverman's work over the past year and I decided I was going to do a lot of scumbling on those large surfaces. Somebody needs to come along and take the brush out of my hands.

Your paintings here are very fine indeed!

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Ilaria, I really like the way these two painting look as well. They have a certain contemplative mood about them and by keeping the background rather vague it adds to that feel of the viewer peeking into "their world".

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Thank you Enzie, sorry for being late in answering, I was in Italy for Easter and am just back in rainy London.
I am glad you like the background because I found it very challenging, and tried hard to keep it a little blurred.
Thanks for commenting
Ilaria