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Hannah 30"x24" Oil Painted 11/5/2015

Whether a person calls this type of artwork a sketch or a painting, in my way of thinking, is not important. For instance in this picture, that is done in three hour period, there are many areas that I can improve on and correct for the purpose of acquiring a better visual finish. But I know from my own experience every time I have tried to correct an artwork such as this for the sake of making it look accurate rather than sketch-like, I lose something that I am unable to regain. Yes, I may be able to get a more finished look yet the picture would have lost that immediacy that I personally favor.

I always wonder why of all the paintings that I have seen whether of masters of the past or of contemporary artists, the ones that are the sketch-like always stay with me for years. The very well done technically speaking pictures, even though I very much admire on viewing, almost always are lost in my memory.