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Dear Tim,
After your generous advice on my posting I thought I'd add a few remarks of my own. I'd love to know if you work entirely from life or also from life size (or otherwise) photos. I also use the technique of sight size (if you can simplify painting why not do so). In fact I've just been to an exhibition here in Florence demonstrating all the tools, techniques and theories that the renaissance artists used to use, the Camera Lucida being one of many, but I diverse. What struck me immediately in the painting was the relation between the proportion of the hand and the face, either the model has large hands or, as seems more likely, the face is slightly too small, accounting for the too long neck. I ask if you used photos because they so often distort proportions, especially if the model is leaning slightly away from you.
Is there any way you could post a close up of the face?
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