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Dear Stanka and Carlos,
Thank-you very much for your kind comments. I find I have to be very aware these days of my tendency to "do properly" the areas that work as they are in their scruffy, unfinished state. It is a balance between getting a rich enough surface of paint and leaving the initial marks, which carry the essence of my artistic response to the figure. Usually I have to re-make those initial marks once the paint surface has been built up enough. there is one blessing to trying to "do properly" the sketched figure - I completely deaden it and have to start again, and when I do start again I find the deadening of the figure has actually built up a rich, suggestive surface (once the figure has been painted anew over the top).
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