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Peter Smith

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I have tried to make the eyes look right, believe me, but I do seem to have settled on a style. The picture is a work in progress, I'll keep improving it as it goes along. I think I need to get all the figures in so I can see it as a whole and then go back to them to finesse things. That's the plan anyway, whether or not it works remains to be seen! Peter

Sylvia Evans

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Good morning "He" Peter...Eye, Eye.....all very expressive though yes a tad white in my umble  opinion.   Maybe tone down the white in your finessing period with a pale ,pale blue grey. Still awaiting the appearance of French Bull doggo...could be a Poodle. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Hi Peter  I find painting eye very difficult probably why I don’t do them very often other than when I do owls. Might be worth spending a little while looking at paintings of eyes on the net , I do this  and then paint a few to get the feel . Anyway it your painting mate and it’s how you do it , I will say your a braver man than me portraits scare me and I do a few figures as I can . Looking forward to seeing how you tackle it . PS I’m liking your recent batch of landscapes .

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Who is "HE ". Lucian ?. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Presumably Peter - rather than the original artist.  Lucian's point is that Peter's eyes - well: the ones he paints - do tend to look like this; but that this may just be his style; it may be - though I doubt it.  It may also be that Peter finds painting eyes difficult - in which he's certainly in good company; if the latter is the case, then I hope he'll find criticisms helpful; if the former should be the case, well then he'll stick with the style that he's established: but may still want to think about moving on from it.   In the meantime, we await the arrival of the dog with keen anticipation.  
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Peter Smith

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I've been finding all your comments very helpful and encouraging so thanks to everyone. I've moved the painting on again and hopefully the eyes now look better: The dog has appeared, or at least the outline of it: I don't consider any of the 'new' faces to be finished, I always like to go back to them with fresh eyes the following day......sorry, that's not meant to be a pun! A couple of close ups might help: They don't look very human yet! Peter

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Robert Jones, Napa

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It IS difficult, Peter - well, we don't need to tell you that!  The latest shows improvement, and all you or we can do is to keep practising until we achieve something like that to which we aspire: it can take a very long time, but it's always encouraging if you can discern ways in which your work is better now than it was, say, 20 years ago: I've kept a lot of my old stuff, and am glad I did because it's given me a good set of benchmarks to measure progress.  The only thing that worries me is that I sometimes find things that look better than anything I've done recently - but it's a never-ending journey, until the Grim Reaper taps one on the shoulder and suggests there's an overdue appointment.... 

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Peter Smith

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We'll put that off for as long as possible Robert!  I've done a bit more but I'm going to leave it for today and pick things up in the morning. That girl still looks like she's about to bite the head off a passing duck! Peter

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Ha I have spotted the dog.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Peter your doing really well mate , as said by others and you yourself know it take time to get things how you want them and then you decide to do it differently. 
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Peter Smith

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Thanks Paul. If everything came easily it wouldn't be any fun would it!  Peter
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Here's this morning's progress; I'm going to do the items on the table next and leave the dog and the last two figures until the end.  Peter
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