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Margaret, thank-you very much for your response. I have missed hearing from you on the forum, and seeing your great paintings.
I really enjoyed doing this painting - I enjoyed making the marks, feeling the paint going onto the canvas, and doing the drawing. The figure in shadow will stay as it is for now. The reason the painting works so well for me is that the three colours - the blue, the brown and the pink/flesh - and their placement on the canvas really got a hold of me and gave me the excitement to see the painting through. The figure in light was painted in direct relation (although it wasn't a fully-conscious or deliberate thing) to the blue, the brown and the composition. The brown shadow figure may be slightly too dominant, and too sketchy, but as it is a whole painting I feel very satisfied with it. Whatever is slightly wrong about this one will inform my next work. To change this painting would mean redoing it as a new painting, so I might as well do the changes on a new canvas. My paintings are both studies and finished works.
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