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Elizabeth, I think that the build up can really work for a painting, if it is well handled.
For me it is successful:
-when it is confined to the lighter areas of the painting
-when the direction of a rich brush stroke says something about the subject's form
- when the brushstroke is a definite statement possibly of a pure colour
- when it is the top layer showing: it is not covered by a thinner layer of colour
In my paintings I am AFTER build up, as I try, with thicker paint, to make them more of an object and less of an image.
Ilaria
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