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child and adult portraits and strange but beautiful paintings
Girl's head: study in brown
(Detail: click for the full painting)
Oil on canvas, 11 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches
Martin Dace 2004.
Colours used: burnt umber, raw umber, raw siena, yellow ochre, white for the initial painting, then touches of cadmium red as a thin glaze.
Perhaps she is Galatea, just coming to life.
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