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Thank-you Allan and Alexandra. The face on the boy (yes, he's a boy - my son, and has curly blond hair, so Mama hates to cut it) was the first thing that worked after the usual weeks of struggle and destruction, and so, being human, I didn't want to touch that. But then the background needed work - or, rather, needed putting in because, again, I am human and didn't put it in at the same time as the face (oh the horror). And when working on the background I was much more conscious of what I was doing and trying to repeat what went before and so it began to stand out more than the face and so on and so forth ... The thing is, I can't just put in an eye because that's like defusing a bomb for me - one false move and the painting's dead! I don't have the nerve. Might as well just deliberately euthanase the thing and start again. I am actually beginning to look forward to this starting again business, which is probably a good thing because it takes up so much of my painting time.
(This forum is like a studio wall in an artists' community. Put up your works and let your peers have a look. I am really benefitting from it.)
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