Today the final choice of paintings had been made. The "savant", Z, helped me a lot. There is a Serbian saying "takav je rodjen". Some people are just born gifted! I guess it's the same in every language...."born that way". I am much calmer now that the choice of paintings for the art opus has been made. But there is still an enormous amount of work and I still haven't finished M's portrait!
Mr. Z also bought a small painting which suits him well, the man in motion that he is.
I am glad that the new painting if S is finished! I love to use earth toned crayons with gesso, or any toned charcoal, crayons. Mixed with gesso, I can get a lot of depth and can work quickly. Painting is like cooking....so many recipes! It helps to have a good memory, which I don't.
So much of my work is done subconsciously, but I am starting to take more of a practical approach lately. I use a different pallette for each painting and name it, so that when I get back to the painting, I know exactly which colors I used. It's interesting,... I noticed that I never use the same group of colors! Each paintings has it's own set of colors, kind of like a genetic code!
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