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Lee Farmer

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Red scarf and me. I have been posting in normal gallery as I forgot about this forum feed decided to put progress drawings on here instead first picture second picture and the stage I am at the moment

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Sylvia Evans

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Looking good Lee . Your painting is better than your spelling. 😉

Anth Knight

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Nice work Lee!
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Lewis Cooper

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Looking good. I don't think you given us the medium. Lew.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Looking good - don't worry about your spelling - just pretend it's a typo.... Are you doing this from life in front of a mirror, or from a photo of yourself? Either would be fine, just curious - on the whole, I think working from a mirror image is good, but of course you are seeing yourself back to front; so some people use two mirrors to correct this - I wonder if anyone on here has done that, and if they felt it helped?
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Try working with a mirror for your next piece - it's usually lack of confidence that makes people think they need to work from photos. I did once start to do that, but thought 'hang on - what's the point? I'm just recreating an image that already exists...'; the Bengal artist Pratim Das did a portrait of me in chalk, from a photograph, though - most distinguished.... I agree with Alan that two mirrors is an unnecessary faff, and that a sp is best done from life, like all portraits. But this one is looking good all the same.