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Originally Posted by Mike McCarty
When an intelligent, albeit not in the arts, person says to you:
* when will you finish it?
* why have you already framed it?
* did you just get bored with it and quit?
* were you pressed to start another?
* I would want mine to be finished with paint everywhere.
* you would charge less for this, right?
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I know what you mean. I've also run into quite a few people who come right out and say that it drives them crazy when the artist doesn't fill up every spot of available space. I usually say something to the effect that the modern world has become so used to photography that we no longer see reality except as a camera might see it, i.e. with every area filled with something. But an artist is concerned with design and the direction of attention.
Another idea is to find a J.S. Sargent portrait executed this way, show them a copy and announce, "Look! Sargent did it this way." They will probably have heard of Sargent.