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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Head of a Girl
I'm going to get back into doing more heads and portrait sketches.
I have a back list of quiet a few people waiting to be painted.
Here is a head that I worked up in oils from a drawing I had done a few months earlier.
2 comments:
Mark Heng
said...
Beautiful! I love the subtle tonality.
August 31, 2012 at 6:10 PM
PJ Lynch
said...
Many thanks Mark
PJ
September 3, 2012 at 7:06 AM
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2 comments:
Beautiful! I love the subtle tonality.
Many thanks Mark
PJ
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