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Okey-doke = well, I must be doing something right with this, or you wouldn't have recognized him at all. I've seen the Pankhurst portrait - interesting study, which I must look at again; it'll probably throw me right out, though! Two more stages now ready: I've decided to use a very old method of painting heads, rather than a more direct approach; so if he looks like the green man now, it's because I've used terre verte and a lead white. This needs to dry before glazing over it, and probably a bit more opaque work as well: it's only ever going to be a sketch: can't hope to do as well as those who painted him when he was still alive - he's been dead now for just over 100 years; you wonder what he'd make of things today ..... he was disappointed enough with human progress at the time of his quite early death.
