Festival Hats

Here are my daughter, Anthea and her mother sporting the Italian flag colors with hats at our Italian Festival. I'm continuing to work with getting the values right and not concentrating so much on getting a resemblance. I'm finding that the resemblance comes if I stay true to the values and composition. Anthea asked me to do the portraits in graphite and only the hats in colors. I found that I spent almost as much time with the colored pencils as I did the portraits.
Anyway, it was great fun.