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The process of painting Lois

April 24, 2014 by Lin Kerr 1 Comment

These are the design decisions I made in my portrait of Lois: The scarf needs to be really special to give the cocooning effect I'm after, and will be metallic silver, stressed, with the design painted on decoratively. The background will be natural plywood. I masked it to keep it clean. Colours will not be particularly realistic. ...and here is a cool thing that happened: I did the trousers and feet very loosely and liked the result. But her hands - well I just blocked them in roughly - and … [Read more...]

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