Chuck Close, and the Seventies

Okay... So this is the finished project. Well... Finished for now. 

Oil paints, 50x45 (ish)

Here is some perspective for those of you bad with dimensions... 

That's my kitchen table in the background, and it is leaning against our TV...

So big. But so fun! Oh. And that's the picture I worked off... don't tell my Dad I put this on here...

Okay. More on Italy... I'm leaving in eight days! And I'll be there for a year. Goodness knows how I am going to survive... Hopefully I swim rather than sink. I am so looking forward to being around all of the beautiful architecture and art and culture and just drawing everything in sight... I'll be attending the Accademia delli belli arti in Bologna.

Wish me luck!