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Who would have thought that "catch lights in the eyes" could spur so much comment?
With apologies for using my own work to illustrate a point and for the poor color and quality of print (Done quickly on current painting in the works and with all those darn canvas highlights reflecting back). Steven's sage advice and the immediacy of this wet canvas was opportune.
In this portrait (detail) the white of the eye is lighter than the highlights and I think I will keep it that way although I always (almost) tell students to avoid making the "whites" of the eyes a white value. I guess you could say that I have three highlights (no extra charge). This now makes up for a painting that I made some time ago with a highlight in one eye only.
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