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28 -Starting niece’s portrait

Just started blocking in shapes with a filbert brush that was probably too big for facial detail. It felt really nice to paint on canvas again; it’s been a few years.
I’m trying out of of those Masterson Stay Wet palettes, and so far, it’s working nicely except that I forgot to squeeze out extra [...]

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20: Who’s In There?

More PS experimentation. Doing this reminded me of some exercise that an illustration teacher would have us do where you build up from a variety of marks and slowly find focus. Lately, I’ve been trying to block in large areas of black with various brushes. I didn’t see the face and arms [...]

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