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Thank you LIsa,
I did this painting for myself so I was able to experiment more than I would have ordinarily. Besides all the different backgrounds that I fumbled with there is also a wide variance of skin texture. Her face being smooth with the perimeter edge being the sharpest. The rest being slightly out of kilter with no hard edges. And then the background was done with a palette knife.
As I look at it I think I got close to my objective but did not reach it completely. One might argue that these divergent styles create a lack of cohesion.
One thing I learned is that I need to learn more about color temperature. It's good to know that you know things, but to discover what you don't know is even more important. Most of the time I don't even know what I don't know (I'm beginning to sound like Donald Rumsfeld). Trying to resolve the different temperature issues was a good learning experience for me.
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Mike McCarty
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