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I think there may be a problem with the eyes, not looking to the same place. The one on the right seems a couple of degrees off? She looks so stern and yet she is actually the softest and most gentle person. In retrospect I think I unconsciously posed and painted her in a way that accentuated her unique angular features.
One thing I don't like about pastel is: once you commit to framing the piece you better be finished with it. Once it's buttoned up under glass, without the additional expense of reframing, you have to live with it. You say, Da... if it's not finished why button it up? All I can say is, a painting is finished only when it is out of my site. It's a little maddening to see a flaw and not be able to get your fingers in there. There's a pretty good subject: -when is a painting finished-. I say: there never finished, only abandoned.
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Mike McCarty
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