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Thank-you very much, Carlos. I enjoyed doing it, and really enjoyed using the blue greens with the peaches and picks of the flesh. It is quite a powerful thing - the blue/peach complementarity - it gives a sense of life and actuality (I am using this word rather than "realism" because if the texture of the paint is right, it gives a kind of unflowered, unembellished, more direct and deeper feeling of a living presence. I am doing quite a few horse portrait commissions at the moment, and I find blues in the light and in the shadows (with the chestnut or dark bay colours of the coat) really take it away from being the beginning of a painting to something near to finished, without having to put in excess detail.
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