Imagining Their Faces

Media: Colored Charcoal, Colored Pencil and Colored Chalk Pastel

Artist's critique: I know I tend to idealize Andrea. I tend to draw him as some romantic figure and I always seem to draw him with long hair. ( I LIKE him with longer hair !!!! )

In this particular illustration, I tried to imitate his hair in the photo of Newsweek.

I tried to draw him as how I imagine him listening to his oldest son telling him some childhood tale and Andrea listening intently with love.

I do not draw babies very well, but I tried to have Matteo looking up to his father with a loving smile on his face.....perhaps as time goes on, the eyes for his father.

Excerpt from interviews:"I will never see the faces of my children." The time I spend traveling is longer that the time I am at home. Because of that, I don't like to have social meetings at home. I want to be with my people, to play with my children, to embrace my wife, to laugh together, to enjoy their love, to imagine them..." Andrea Bocelli says. Before the interview, a press paper warns not to mention his blindness. But he speaks about imagining, all verbs that from the mouth of a man who cannot see since he was 12 years old. Then, he carefully walks towards one of the corners of the living room, to meet his children... Whom he imagines.