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Defeat de feet
Am I the voice of sanity? Perhaps insanity! However I think that including her feet is a mistake. Because they are unclear and the shapes are neither descriptive nor beautiful. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, so why even try?
Here is a painting of feet by one of my heroes, Monsieur Bouguereau. How good was his reference? I believe we tend to overlook the painstaking care the master artists took in assembling the necessary information they required to paint their great works. The truly great ones are those that continually went the extra yard.
If I'm unsure about any aspect of my painting I ask myself, will including it make the portrait better or worse?
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