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AWDAWM
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AWDAWM

Acrylic on canvas finished April 20th, 2018.
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Just in my mind, but I spent a few years climbing around the hills in Southern California out near Riverside, and have also been camping through some parts of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. Those places made me feel more alive and they stay with you. Most of my artwork is fanciful.
 
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@farouk a friend and professional artist complained about a lack of "blending ", but in this painting I wanted broad brush strokes to look like the marks of finger worked clay, molded by the hands of God.
 
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@farouk yes. He also worked in oils. I like using oils, but it's easier for me to complete something in a timely way in acrylics. Unfortunately, acrylics don't mix true, nor do they dry with the same chroma as when wet. Out of the tube is closest. I posted these because I like the finished result, but if I were painting them now, a few things would've been done a little differently. I only took two art classes in college and wasn't taught any technique in those classes at all. We just did assignments and had our work criticized. My friend went to the SVA in Manhattan. That school actually taught him techniques, but I have to learn by doing and I have far less time for painting than I imagined that I would before retirement.
 
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@farouk oils take a long time to dry, while acrylics are frequently partly dry before putting down the brush. This makes the oils more forgiving. A little solvent on a rag can clean up most of the pigment right down to the canvas, but once the acrylics are dry you have to paint over them to make changes and both types of paint tend to translucency when thinned.
 

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