He favored artificial rather than natural light and seemed to enjoy ironically posing subjects in contexts where they felt ill at ease . Working in oils , he often sketched the original outlines with a brush in intense blue or green , allowing those lines to show through subsequent layers of translucent paint to give the finished work a rapid , sketchy quality , which is sometimes enhanced by the presence of bare canvas and undeveloped areas of composition . He often painted on raw cardboard...











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