If I feel I have only half an hour to paint, I paint with looseness and purpose and the results , as shown here, have a certain vitality. This is the first oil portrait I have attempted and so far, so good. I was using up what colours remained from my still life so now I either try to replicate the same colours ( because my old palette is now cleared of paint) or I use a different palette of colours and I paint over the fresh brushstrokes that are adding to the effect in the portrait.
Perhaps the moral is: Use a fresh palette of paints for each work. This was probably Lesson 1 in a course I didn't do.
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