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<\/a><\/p>\nI suggested painting children, always winning models for a painting. With research I selected best photos to paint from.<\/p>\n
The first step, after finding photos is the charcoal sketch. Left to right, it’s an Australian Aborigine, a girl from Burkina Faso, from India, an Alaskan Inuit, and a girl from Thailand.<\/p>\n The next step is stretching canvas on a big sheet of plywood constructed for the purpose (hidden here, under the canvas.<\/p>\n Then it was a matter of getting rid of all the canvas white, here applying fluid acrylic paint with a roller.<\/p>\n The canvas covered with color, I projected my initial sketch onto the canvas and charcoaled the faces again, this time to size.<\/p>\n A moment of evaluation of progress.<\/p>\n Further fine-tuning, a palette and paint ready to go, using a full side of my garage as a studio.<\/p>\n Here’s progress about three-quarters along. Note that it’s all about the same stage of completion, which is my way, rather than completely finishing one figure before moving onto the next.<\/p>\n One more thing: I was asked to include wording on the painting.\u00a0 With that, the painting was complete. I took the canvas off the staples, rolled it up and shipped it to Anchorage. They then took it to a framer to get it stretched on stretcher bars. (Click on it for a large view.)<\/p>\n I was inited “last minute” that I would be invited to come and be part of the presentation at Muldoon Community Assembly church. By the next day the painting was hanging in their main auditorium (along with ten others large pieces of mine from earlier times–a beautiful array).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n