Thanks for your refreshing however humbling opinions all! Us old cheerleaders die hard, we dive in with way too much enthusiasm but I doubt this will stop. I need to find a closet so I can put old work in and lock it up forever, of course until it can start touring with the Pushkin exhibit - Just Kidding!
Jeff, yes my reference could be blue this day, I am notorious for bad Digital's, until I have the money I can for this time blame it on the camera, a little slack there, but only there.
As for "Jinny the Writer" she does look much nicer in person, because she is on the background we started on. My lashing from my last teacher went pretty much to the effect of:
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I told you the success of a good painting will be exponentially increased if you set things up so they look good. Going back and trying to change ill-conceived paintings is a flawed plan.
Like John Lennon said, "Let it be." Work from life or photos if you must, but don't change the reference, especially the background. It affects the color of the shadows and every other relationship. In the paintings you redid, you threw out the baby with the bath water. Like the painter guy. You changed the strength of the drawing and made him look bloated. You lost the contrast between light and shadow. I told you that "everything in the light is lighter than everything in the shadows". "Go lighter in the lights and darker in the shadows." "Don't let shadow values meander in the lights and visa versa." This is the "golden rule" of painting. This is how the ball of the head maintains form. In the paintings you redid you lost sight of this concept and messed them up.
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Dang, he is right again as are all of you.
Stacey, I love it when people come out of the wood work, I am really sad now that I changed this one, but I thought people had real problems with this. Funny I didn't touch the fore ground at all, just the background to over her left should, it really shows what changing the backgrounds can do!
Now I am chewing my nails not to do this again. Please note if you think all is lost, look at "The Secret" in the Unveilings section it has been done since these.
Thanks for your support.
Beth