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In today’s painting of Miranda I decided to include the clutter and shelves behind the model as added pattern to give interest to the picture. Doing this can be problematic. Because I still need to move  shapes to a certain extent and also adjust the values and colors on the painting itself to make it read well or at least turn out to my satisfaction.

I like to leave these pictures sketchy. I find that once I start fixing and correcting things on a picture such as this I tend to loose interest, even if it gets more of a polished or finished look. 

This type of paintings may fail a Juried show but, in my opinion that criteria should not influence how we, the artists look at our work. What’s important is the satisfaction we derive from the activity and to meet our expectation of the outcome.