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Thanks so much to those of you who said they liked this painting, you've made my day. Bill, thanks for more fully explaining your technique and including the photo.
Enzie,
I've never tried that brand of gessoed board. Good painting (I love pale backgrounds.)
Linda,
George is my husband. I thought I ought to try an experiment on ABS before I tried to convince clients to let me use it for their painting.
By the way, the composition of this painting came about in part because my husband and I couldn't agree what should be in the background. I decided I liked the open pale background after I did a couple of thumbnail sketches.
Linda, you are busy enough these days without having to sand down plastic! I'll give you the name of my supplier if you promise not to do anything about it for a few months: Plastic Engineering in Tempe, very nice people.
Michele,
I'm trying to find my own personal ledge in portraiture between "Painterliness" [West Coast?] and "Classicism" [East Coast?]. The former sometimes doesn't look much like the subject; the latter sometimes looks too much like a photograph of the subject.
Possibly this is just an issue of taste.
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