Original artwork description:

If you have a elastic wrist and an eagle eye drawing a perfect freehand circle (from the Greek 'kirkos' meaning a hoop or ring) is relatively straightforward, or, rather, circleforward. Drawing smaller circles is a doddle - not much can go wrong there - but larger ones, while challenging, are not as difficult as you might think. YouTube will show you various ways of substituting your wrist as the point of a compass and rotating a piece of paper, but this method is physically impossible to replicate with an artist's canvas. But two of the larger circles in this painting were painted completely naked - just a supple wrist and a loaded paintbrush. Freehand circles take slightly longer than those done with 'aids' but the artist defies you to pick out the rogue two circles from the picture. It is impossible. They are as good, to his eye, as all the others. This is not to brag; he didn't know he could do it himself until he tried it. Easy as pi(e).

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Acrylics

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