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Get to know about my weekly practice

In this section you can follow how my work is progressing and the reasoning behind it.

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So I came in the other day to get my work ready to present. I found that the work worked better in small collections of 2-3 pieces. you can see below how ive done this. It shows from a perfectly pristine piece to the most wrecked and deteriorated work.


Here is them in order for presentation.







As you can see, the last 7 images went through various different ways of deterioration, some burning, chemicals, hand cut and some through boiling water and abit of tearing.

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Here you can see that Ive stepped out of my comfort zone by going bigger, I think this piece was extremely successful

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Updated: May 16, 2023


this piece was quite difficult because I wanted a certain crack to it like paintings made 300+ years ago, but sadly I couldnt get it. The closest I could get was by using crackle paste which said it was translucent but as I applied it to the canvas I discovered It was not and ruined my test piece. In the end I had to apply the crackle paste to a blank canvas and paint on top of it.

this piece looks like it has some movement to it which is quite exciting as the figure looks like its running through a field.

I also had trouble with it because i used acrylic which didnt leave me with much time to play around with unlike oil paint, i finally resorted back to oil as i prefer that process.

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