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Old 08-02-2004, 10:14 PM   #8
Debra Norton Debra Norton is offline
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Steven, thanks, that was easy; I should have asked that question a long time ago. We've been here (Minnesota) for almost a year now, it's about time I get updated.

Lei, thank you also for your very good answers. Good food for thought. I'm going to write out your questions and post them in my studio. I had an impromptu critique today from one of my teachers, and she said almost the same thing you did about painting the "whole".

Joan, in today's critique I saw, with help from my teacher, I had painted the bottom half of my painting as a whole, and the top parts separately. So tomorrow's job will be to bring them back together. They were together (or at least partly together) once, but I changed the value of the background without changing the value of one of the objects, which made it pop out instead of fit in. Oh well, paint and learn! I think one of the most important things I've learned this year is to not ignore that little voice in my head, or feeling in my gut, that says "That's not right...." And I'm thrilled if I listen and get it fixed before the teacher catches it! When I was bringing my cast painting
to a finish one of my teachers said you can work on a painting for ten years, but it sure gets boring. It's good to bring them to a finish so you can apply what you've learned on the first one to the next.
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