[Aquanet] Fw: help, eh

[patchapin at mindspring.com]

> Wow, talk about a change in approach, Pat!  Brave, I'd say.
>
> I think you have only a couple of fixes necessary, and would agree with 
> Barry that you might want to try to do an overlay or two, or (sigh) if you 
> have a decent paint program, guess you could try that too.  I say 'sigh' 
> because if I'm in the mode to be checking things via computer, my brain is 
> not set up at that time to take some dares on the painting itself.
>
> The way I see it, you have fallen victim to the old thing about colour 
> when we are nervous -- I think if you deepen and cool the blue tones in 
> the foreground where the one slope sits behind another, and then intensify 
> the light source with a little New Gamboge and Rose, that it will fix 
> itself.  I would find some problems with that foreward-lit butte in golds, 
> except that since I've been in mountainous desert areas I see it actually 
> happen (bugs me when it does, as it breaks all the rules, but what can I 
> say?).  But I think most of the problems in this abstract piece can be 
> cured with some deep, cold mysterious blues in the 
> foreground..................
>
> pat chapin
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