I started this painting a couple of months ago (here), working on top of a canvas I’d recycled because I didn’t like the previous painting. Because of that, it’s quite heavily textured, which is something new for me. I’m used to working on paper, drawing and printmaking, or new stretched canvas for painting, much smoother surfaces.
I’m working from a photograph, taken at night of two siblings by a campfire, and I find the best way to get an accurate likeness is to turn the photo and the canvas upside down. It works for me. I’m blocking in the main areas of colour at this stage, blobs really, and putting in roughly where the two figures are.
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