[Tom Edgerton]

Marina, thanks. I appreciate this from one who's paintings define elegance.

Ilaria--Not too difficult if it's planned from the beginning. I posed both boys with this goal in mind, and then worked the compositions in roughs simultaneously. I am not painting them concurrently--another job has intervened--but I'll keep both in the studio to paint with similar colors and values. (They are not planned for the same frame, just to be hung on the same wall if the client wants. Similar but different, with the same head size.) The canvas ground is white, but I tone the drawing with washes overall when I start painting, as the white throws off my value eye.