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"The Diary"

This painting was an offshoot of sketches from "The Menu".

I experimented with many backgrounds. When I finally decided to mimic the chair pattern and create windows behind the model, I tried many angles of reflected images and finally decided to cheat and allow the viewer to see through the glass to a study with a book, lamp and chess board.

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The scene was sketched at Stanford University and finished in my studio.

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Purple (more like magenta) is the dominant color in this work, followed by its

complementary yellow. Next is orange and blue with just a smattering of red and green.

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Below - The final painting. There is a lot of yellow (especially in what appears to be the "white" areas).

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