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Ms. Van Wyk has an interesting way of starting her TV episodes. She picks a color, in this case it was thalo green, then smears it down the canvas. She then moves over and smears it down the canvas mixed white white and possibly another color all the time talking about the properties of this one color.
She then painted a head of lettuce using her thalo green mixtures. She had set up a still life with a perfect backdrop that was perfectly side lit. It was, after twenty minutes, stunning.
It reminds me of a couple of things, first how closely linked the portrait is to the still life and, how silly it is to say "there's just nothing to paint."
She ended by saying "a painting is a record of a series of corrections."
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Mike McCarty
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