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Old 11-07-2008, 02:34 PM   #4
Patricia Joyce Patricia Joyce is offline
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Thank you Amanda for your generous compliment and your show of concern for my hand. I have waited all my adult life to create art I am not about to stop, now. There is surgery they want to do on the hand, but I am going to try all other avenues first. Evidently the surgery is very successful, so I keep my hopes afloat. As many artists know, when I am painting or drawing I feel no pain in the hand...but the rest of my day/night,,,arg.

Thank you Debra, your comments mean allot to me because I like your work. I, too, like to see unfinished parts to a piece for the same reasons. I barely changed a thing, just a line or two. My technique is very tedious with layers and layers of fine lines, lifting with gum erasure, going in again. I actually feel as if at some point it is no longer paper and graphite, but it begins to feel like actual skin to me, sounds weird, but I know many of you can relate.
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