The pose had everything I wanted. Big black areas, negative shapes and something different to include (the fingers). I almost made it to the end on this one without adding any impressionistic colours. Then I spotted this and reached for the blue pearl marker. I slapped a big mark on under the left eye and then reeled back in horror, realising that I'd picked up the sky blue marker instead. But was it a disaster or a happy little accident? The use of the wrong blue actually made my impressionistic colours bold and proud rather than subtle and meek. I added more of the sky blue and then some pink. Why not?
And I'm happy with the result at the end. Hugo wins a place in the final eight at the expense of Rosa Klebb. His red background is again chosen to add some variety to a collection that was looking slightly heavy on the blues, greens and yellows.
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