[Tom Edgerton]

Thanks, Renee--

As usual for me, the palette is an amalgamation of all of my influences. I tend to put out what I perceive I need dictated by the environment and light I'm trying to capture, rather than starting with a set of mixtures.This is both good and bad. It means I benefit from all of the traditions and practices that have gone before me, but it also means a lot of feeling my way from painting to painting. It betrays a lack of discipline, maybe, but keeps me learning. Perhaps it's the best I can do.

Skin tones will bedevil me 'til they carry me away. Sometimes I'm on it, sometimes not. I'm not sure it's a function of palette as much as it is maximizing painting from life. I only know it's way easier to capture something believable when the person's there. I'm never totally happy with my skin tones painted from photography. So I try to always at least finish from life unless it's a posthumous piece.

Thanks again--TE