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with all of that said, when I got down to the painting I worked an abstracted figure. I'm not sure why or where it's going but I do have lots of ideas, I think I'm going to do a styro print with text stripey print along the back. That's what I saw when I painted the light gray, More, very soon!

Also here's a page from my pigment research notebook, or for it rather, I've only used the pages for arbitrary testing, I want to work into my painting habit, actually keeping a record of what i used because my students often ask me and I don't know. I could tell them how to make the color but I don't know how I made it....







Tom's feedback:

The color could be punched up.  More variation in the skin would be great.  Decide if the hair is a flat mass or defined.  Push it one way or the other.

Over all - this seems more like an illustration or a portrait then a abstract painting.  When the figure is so prominent and defined it becomes the only reason for the painting to exist.  The painting doesn't exist for its own sake just as window to show this figure.  Yet, if a portrait is what you want I am not convinced by it.  There is no there there (Gertrude Stein).
 

Tom suggested  to lightly cover everything and redraw right over the top.  Don't obliterate the first image just lay a new image over the top.