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Old 07-11-2007, 10:54 AM   #20
Thomasin Dewhurst Thomasin Dewhurst is offline
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You're very kind, Sharon. I, too, have been scraping of heads for the
past week and, you know what, I came to the conclusion that I wasn't
dissatisfied with the painted head so much as with being excited about
what was going on in the scraped off head. So I left it in it's scraped
off stage, with just a few marks here and there, and it became an
impression of light of a figure more than an actual solid figure; a sort of
after-image on the retina, but in the normal positive colours. I am
so excited. It opens up a lot of possibilities and since it is all
about light (and not about a solid, rounded object), when an area of paint
just works as paint, even though it may not be describing the body's
contours correctly, I have a very convincing excuse to leave things as
they are. I'll post it when I've done the hand (I am so bad at hands!).

I have looked at your work a number of times when my painting's going
wrong thinking that I'll never get to your level of competency.



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