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and use a performed metal screen for the dots, and apply the dotted areas. I do this in this particular way because of technical problems. And...Then I put the flat color area in and usually end with the black lines. However, usually the thing becomes... has to get totally rearranged, and I wind up repainting area, and... When I do this I'm rather careful not to...to get the painting textured or to have it looked worked on and rearranged. I try to do it so that it appears as thought this was only done once, and that I knew exactly what I was going to do right from the start, and it was just sort of a question of filling in the lines. But Paintings rarely work out this way and generally take some kind of rearranging. But I sort of work it out almost in a mechanical way... to begin with. The drawing itself, I manipulate quite a bit before I begin, but I have a pretty good idea, a very good idea of what it's going to look like at the end. The thing is that usually, in the middle of this process, something breaks down, and...and it take complete rearrangement before it really works out to my satisfaction. 

Ques: Do you throw destroy away much work?

Roy: I throw away some work. I don't throw away too much work. I usually leave it around and, for quite a while, and...just kind of rearrange it until it seems to work out for me. I usually spend a month or so, at least, working on it, and may keep it around longer than that if it's not... If it just doesn't work out, there's nothing much you can do but throw the canvas away of course.

Ques: Another thing that strikes me is that you work harder than 

It strikes me that you work hard."