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In your sketches you allow complete freedom. The sketches sketch themselves through you, so let the paintings paint themselves through you in the same fashion, and miracles of technique will follow automatically. No problem of technique will exist, in other words.
Read again the material I have already given you, the suggestions on your paintings. You can use purple or violet with too heavy a hand, and the brown becomes lost then. Rise up the importance of yellows or colors signifying light. Let them shine through. Do not smother them with opaqueness.
Let your preliminary sketches be as spontaneous as your ink sketches. Then imagine the colors as appearing from within, not applied from without but shining through. Remember the incredible individuality and integrity and possibilities of each line. You can sometimes forget this in your painting sketches, while you are quite aware of it in your ink sketches.
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(The idea of letting the painting fill itself with color “as blood fills the body” is excellent.
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