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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Hardy Gallery Submission

I joined a few of the people in my class in a mosaic fundraiser project for the Hardy Gallery.  How it works is you sign up, they send you a 6" x 6" stretched canvas and you paint it and send it back to them.  All the canvases are displayed together as a large mosaic and raffled off as a fundraiser.

I sketched out my idea on a small notebook and then scanned it, enlarged it to fit my canvas and then sketched it on canvas.  After my sketch was finished I painted the background color and started with the hair, then worked on painting the face, starfish and kelp shawl.  I painted my line drawing of the scales and then went over it with a wash of color before doing a finishing touch on the fins.  This project is about 4 hours of work.


I really enjoyed this project.  I don't often paint my dreamed up sketches, lately I've been big on photo reference.  But with a canvas so small I think you can get away with invented details.  I hope whoever receives my painting enjoys it.  :)

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