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Submitted: December 14, 2012
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Eye Contactby *FaceRot

Traditional Art / Paintings / Macabre & Horror

Third and final part of a self portrait assignment for school.

Acrylic paint on 11x14 canvas board.

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~babbayanna Apr 10, 2013

this gives me goosebumps.
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good job

~animespacepimp Feb 4, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

that sence of far too much insanity in every painting, i love your art.

~Hiwi Jan 6, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

ohhh u are in ovaryPuncher!! how cool's that? *w*

~247wolfgirl Dec 22, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

How long did this take you? I've noticed you have a few pieces in acrylic paint; it isn't exactly my favorite medium and gave me hell on my last few pieces, but I'd like to give it another go. Do you have any advice?

*FaceRot Dec 23, 2012

I worked on it over a period of a week or two I think! I am pretty slow with acrylics since you can literally keep painting over it forever. I get really anal and end up fussing with/redoing things for a million years. BUT YEAH.

The best advice I can give is to not try to blend it like oils! There's people that use it that way but I know I never could. I do a lot of layering and texturing to build colors up and blend them that way, rather than smearing wet paint around. I also dab with the paint brush instead of like, actually doing brush strokes. Painting like that fucking demolishes brushes though so I advise you get the cheapest ones possible haha.

The professor that gave me an acrylic demo actually painted with super watered down acrylic, treating it more like watercolor. There are SO MANY different ways to use acrylic, so I suggest that you experiment with different techniques! But for me, since acrylic dries SO FAST, it makes sense to me to utilize that drying time the way I paint by using lots of layering

IIT'S HARD FOR ME TO EXPLAIN HAHA. But I hope that is at least somewhat helpful!

~247wolfgirl Dec 26, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Thank you so much! It was very helpful and I guess it couldn't hurt to just set aside a few days to try a few different techniques, when I started working with oils, the first thin i did was take a canvas and cover it with several different patterns, and used different techniques, so I guess I just need to find where I'm comfortable using acrylics

The few acrylic paintings I have aren't exactly finished because usually I get way too frustrated and start over on another subject in another medium.

But thank you again for the advice