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That stinky li'l goat-guy doesn't want a bath! - OK ? And we know Hylas will be in over his head in more ways than one if he goes swimming with those babes. I really, really like both of these.
It's my opinion "Nymphs & Satyr" is Boug's best effort. Somewhere (I don't recall where exactly) I've seen photos of his studio while he was posing models for this piece . . . Linda, I sure can't answer for Bill, but I presume he'd approach the problem logically . . . i.e., plenty of serious observation of outdoor natural lighting in many different circumstances, probably scads of "on scene" sketches and color notes, then control of his studio lighting to suit his purposes.
What I can't imagine is surmounting the extreme difficulty of working "from the life" in natural light outdoors to bring a painting of any size to a higher finish than a mere rapid color sketch. . . sunlight changes incrementally with that minute hand on the clock of course, and with the calendar too. You can't even go back tomorrow (assuming the weather is identical) at the same time of day because the angle of the sun will have changed. These changes are especially radical at the extremes (nearest to dawn & dusk, and around the equinoxes, moreso in northern latitudes). My hat's off to them there "Plenty Airy" folk who paint landscape outdoors from the life . . .
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