I really like painting these portraits using only black and white! I set my timer for 40 minutes before I start, and when the time is up - I stop! I mix as I go, and use no water at all until I am done with the painting - and then only to wash out my brush. No medium is used with the heavy body acrylics, which allows the colors to be quite strong. I am using short, impressionist strokes throughout - even for small areas like the pupils and iris of the eyes. This really adds life and energy in a way straight, hard lines do not. I am trying to do one black and white and one color portrait each day of this month - determined to master this technique quickly. I am using filbert brushes - which I have never used (unless you count all of the brights and flats that I have worn down to filberts through the years!). They make soft, rounded edges to the strokes, that flats simply wouldn't do. Painting number 1043 in 1043 days.
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