2476. To kill some time until he learned more about the
process he decided to simply paint another face right next to the one he
already painted. He took his trowel and trimmed off the edges of his
first face, and made his edges as straight as he could and then he
plastered another rectangle. The first rectangle measured 8 by 10
inches, and the new patch was the same size and just to the right of it.
2477. That evening he painted his second face and it was
just as bad as the first. Like the first face, it looked straight out at
him symmetrically, with the nose in the middle. There were black lines
around the eyes, the lips were red, and the nose was a mess because it
was a shape with no lines in it to go by.
2478. The nose has those two little circles called the
nostrils, and he tried to paint then into his portrait but when he did
his painting looked like a portrait of a pig, so he had to wash it out
and do that part over. When he did it over he could not get his colors
to blend quite right, so when he was finished the second face looked
like a person whose face had been in an accident.
2479. The master at that time was painting a series of faces into the almost finished mural. Faldoni was especially fortunate because of this as it afforded him many opportunities to see how certain impossible problems of drawing a simple face might be dealt with.
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