Thank you so much to each one of you for your compliments and support, they mean a lot to me.
Sharon, painting from life is exciting and terrifying! (and...it was London white sky western light)
This time I made my life simpler by having this boy coming at my studio ( I mean the landing which I pompously call my studio) which I had tried to empty and tidy up.
This preparation time has helped me to calm down and concentrate before starting. In the previous hours I had also painted some colour swatches from Euan Uglow's
book ( a must have) and vowed to keep close to his tonal range.
More and more I try to think about what happens on the surface of the painting in an abstract way. The lines are there to remind the viewer that this is not the illusory reproduction of a head but just paint on a flat surface.
I have also tried to work on the luminosity because I think that this is so much a quality of a child's skin.
I attach a close up, my painting application is joyfully becoming sloppy and raw.
I will have to paint this boy's brothers in the next weeks and I hope I will do well too !
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