Hi Mary and thanks for this! funny how you found the right hand figure distracting – after I’d finished the final version, we played around with a couple of different crops and ended up cropping that right hand figure out altogether! As for the tonal studies, I don’t do them very often but I think I should do them more often (I see people like Andy Evansen using them to help plan out paintings and they’re often wonderful little studies in their own right!)

Hi Drew and thanks so much for this, I really appreciate it!

I can see the “eye drift off to the right”you were talking about but I find the large figure a bit distracting, but that may be just me.

I don’t do tonal studies but maybe I should start.