When painting a subject, you should always have shadows, cast and contained in your setting. When I teach a class, I cannot emphasized enough on how shadows are important for a painter. You can convey any forms by only painting it's shadow. As an example,...

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As a realist figurative painter, the whole purpose of my work is to paint what I see and not what I know. Simple? Yet, in the assumption of seeing, we always take for granted that our eyes give us the mere facts. As you might have guested, it's a little...

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Painting a triptych allegory This project started with a Ted Talks on creativity with John Paul Caponigro. After this talk, I started to use meaningful words that would make me think of a female figure. These words were: Mystery, Clarity and Femininity....

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