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Salon
This painting was meant to serve as a practice for mixing watercolor and gouache to achieve translucency and opacity simultaneously. I used an album jacket of my favorite singer as a reference for this.
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Afternoon Reading Ritual
This painting presented another opportunity to practice using two media together.
Photo refernce was taken from National Geographics.
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Hot Spring - Study for five levels of depth in aerial perspective
Once I was more used to using both medium, I started mixing different refernces to come up with my own compositions. I have a strange fascination for monkeys and wwanted to depict them seen from above, achieveing a sense of depth.
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Salon II
The prompt was to mix different references and depict a strange and uncomfortable situation.