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Portraits: ‘Gulietta’ and ‘Shiva’

FINAL STEP

I recently commenced a series of small portraits for an exhibition in Melbourne. Two of the portraits are used here to illustrate the approach taken. The pictures were drawn from life and the paintings were based on drawings

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