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Thank-you Sharon. One of the things that, for me, gives a feeling of life is the blues and greens in the light areas. Putting those colours down helps give a vibration and a sense of movement, as well a creating a felt three-dimensionality. Finding and painting those cool colours is one of things that most interests and excites me in painting.
Thank-you for your kind words and encouragement, Carlos. I do hope to continue in this direction and will do a larger one sometime soon. I want to continue with my watercolours to try and get the same sense of substance as in an oil - which seems an immensely difficult task!
Ilaria, thank-you! I am trying to work with tonal variations to get a sense of the figure and of life, space and form without resorting to merely illustrating the figure (you, of course, are going in this direction and doing extremely well! I had your paintings in mind when painting this one, and very often have your words going around my head i.e. "think flat". So thank-you for being so good at what you do).
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