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Old 11-26-2002, 12:43 AM   #1
Peggy Baumgaertner Peggy Baumgaertner is offline
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Enzie,

One of the rules about where to cut a painting, (I think I heard it originally from Cedric Egeli) is that you do not chop off the fingers or toes of the sitter, and you do not cut them at the joint (the elbow, wrist, knees and ankle.) You can cut at mid-arm or mid-thigh. Mid-calf and mid-forearm is okay, but not as good as mid-upper arm and mid-thigh.

Based on these rules, you would need to go with the head only photograph, no matter how much you like to paint hands. In your reference photograph, the fingers are cut off. If you wanted to paint his hands, you need to drop the image down a few inches to include the entire hands.

I would also simplify the background.

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