Fun with Fabrics

So I thought I'd leave an update on the shirt and sweater. Progressing slowly. Can't do too much while the white of the collar is still wet. The stripes keep bleeding.

On another note, I read a great story about John Singer Sargent this weekend. It appeared in the class notes from one of his students. Apparently the big complaint about his amazing portraits came from his sitters. They were never happy with their mouthes. She writes, "It was a common experience for Sargent, as probably for all portrait painters, to be asked to alter some feature in a face, generally the mouth. Indeed, this happened so often that he used to define a portrait as 'a likeness in which there was something wrong about the mouth.'"

Good to know.