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Nan, 20" x 24"
I feel a little bit embarrassed, posting two in a row, but I'm going to go ahead and do it! Just got these slides back and they turned out pretty well with a little photoshopping.
Let me explain about this portrait. It's really similar to a life study, except that I did it from several photographic references. My intent was to try to impart more of a feeling of movement in my portraits. So I set myself a time limit, in this case 3 hours. Actually it took me 3 1/2 from start to finish. I realized that, previous to this, I had gotten into a habit of pushing paint around too much and losing my spontenaeity, so I was very careful about sketching out the proportions of the head and face before picking up a paint brush. Voila! I got the likeness So quickly it amazed me! Plus I was able to keep my brushstrokes fresh. Once I got the head, I progressed to the rest of the painting. So in many ways it was an exercise as much as a likeness.
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