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...That painter in the first one really has no freaking idea how she screwed up, does she? For those wondering: when somebody with money asks you to paint their kid, you paint the kid so that she looks like a goram cherub. In this case, that means you push the forehead back, fix the mouth so that it's no longer crooked -- and, YES, absol…
...That painter in the first one really has no freaking idea how she screwed up, does she? For those wondering: when somebody with money asks you to paint their kid, you paint the kid so that she looks like a goram cherub. In this case, that means you push the forehead back, fix the mouth so that it's no longer crooked -- and, YES, absolutely no freaking circles under the eyes.
This is, like, Portrait Painting for Wealthy Patrons One-Zero-One. Unless they explicitly say so, they don't want a picture of a 'slightly glamorized' ugly baby, especially when it's their own kid. They want the glamor applied with a trowel, and they didn't bother to tell you that in the same way that they didn't tell you to paint with a mixture of toothpaste and your own urine.