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I prefer the Un-cropped one... I like a bit of negative space.. Creates more interest...
Entwined, abstract

Sandra Kennedy

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Sorry, I much prefer the cropped one. For the same reasons as others have given.
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Marjorie Firth

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Ha ha, I love it! We’ll all never agree!
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Sandra Kennedy

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And wouldn't it be a dull world if we all did agree!
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Marjorie Firth

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Anthony Knight

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Uncropped for me Marjorie! As Eric mentions above, the negative space frames the work perfectly.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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I think the truth might be - we like both of them! There's only one thing to do, Marjorie: paint another one - so you've got a cropped for the croppees, and an uncropped for the rest. It wouldn't be the first time I've tried to paint a copy of a painting, with a bit left out, or a bit put in: my problem has always been that I'm not a great copyist, especially of myself.  Still, it can be done, and it can be fun: which, you will observe, threatens to be poetry...  well, doggerel anyway.  
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I think both are great... I still prefer the uncropped one a little more, because the eye is always going to travel around an entire work anyway.. It looks more interesting to me....

Carol Jones

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Both nice but the uncropped is easier on the eye.
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Marjorie Firth

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Well folks, thanks very much for your views - and your poetry! It’ll probably , well, pretty well certainly, stay in the pastel pad but it’s a case in point that we never have the definitive answer. Keeps the old brain ticking over….

Thomas Harrod

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I prefer the cropped version. For me, the baskets are a distraction. As Robert says, the cropped version takes one right into the picture. Whichever one prefers it is a loveley painting.
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Marjorie Firth

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Thank you Thomas.
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