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Old 02-02-2006, 11:30 PM   #10
Alexandra Tyng Alexandra Tyng is offline
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Hi Vianna,

While you're internalizing all those tapes, of which I am sure you are fully capable given your level of expertise, I have a suggestion that might help:

I've heard that Sargent, while wanting his strokes to appear effortless and fresh, actually invested a lot of effort, practice and planning to make them appear so. If he wasn't satisfied, he would wipe an area out and do it over and over again until he got the strokes just right. It might speed up your "learning curve" to use his method. My son does the same thing when practicing a piece of music--he works on small sections, getting just the right inflection, tone, etc. before moving to the next section.
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