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Life of an Artist – Blog #5: The Surreal within Painting
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
About this lesson
The painter describes her collaborative process for a surreal piece: selecting inspirational photographs of unrelated subjects, letting a collaborator rough in chaotic acrylic and charcoal marks, then calming that chaos with bold oil paint rather than working from a fixed plan.
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