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Flints, Chalk and Oil paint is a new departure, retaining the drawing and alterations as integral to the subject - for the first time since Monochrome Window but this time there's more formality in the presentation of the various modes of work: stained canvas; dry chalk line; erased chalk; visible brushwork; erased brushwork; palette knife; erased palette knife. Possibly these could be laid out even more formally, like Lisa Milroy's painting. The similarity to a blackboard is intentional, to see the painting as a collection of  signs and symbols that can be erased.

Flints, Chalk and Oil Paint Detail
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