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A friend accused me of only painting legs, so I made this version of my 3 Muses.

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This painting was the first of series I started way back on January 1, but are only now starting to get going. I got accused by a friend of focusing only on anatomy and ignoring the rest of my paintings so I began a kind of concerted effort to fully design my entire painting surface this year.

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I made a quick gestural sketch years ago. Later, while packing another painting to ship I was looking for something to brace the surface of the canvas and considered sending this off. Instead I decided to keep it and finish it.

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I got praise from Caesar on this one!

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My specific goals were to practice more types of skin tones and learn how to transition figures to background in the style of Soey Milk and Kent Knowles; there's still work to do on both goals.

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I executed this little painting as a quick gesture between other work, but also helped me start loosening up with my backgrounds in general.

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I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, even though it took forever. It started with a portrait of a couple of kids and I added the shirts then made a Dave-Cooper type background.

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