Andrea is a friend via Facebook who lives in Italy.  He and a partner recently had sent me a pic of themselves re-enacting my painting "Tie the Knot".  So taking it to the next step it seemed fitting to do a painting of him.  I did this painting from a camera phone pic he had up on his Facebook page.  I needed to crop out a lot to bring focus and also did some altering of the background.  The tough part was getting the rendering of the face, since by the time I enlarged it, it was very pixelated.