WOW! What a difference a day makes. This piece is finally starting to pop into focus. I am really excited about it and plan on spending the next two days working on it non-stop. After that I will be moving studios and won't be able to work on it for a couple of weeks:-(Today I spent a lot of time working on defining muscle and getting some expression on the face. Some artists work on one area at a time until it is nearly complete and then move to the next. I am constantly working on the painting as a continual whole. Everything is relational, shapes, colors, values, negative space. Early on in my career I remember doing a painting where one section of it was so beautifully painted I loved it...only problem was it didn't work with the rest of the painting. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an artist to paint over that section. That's why I now approach a painting as a whole as opposed to a series of sections connected like a puzzle.
Hope that makes sense!
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