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A voyage of discovery

hen I first started to use acrylics at school, I remember being so excited; the opacity, the thickness and the vibrancy were wonderful, plus the ability to be almost sculptural with the thick paint felt too good to be true. However, when I began working as an illustrator, I did a lot of research into different media and felt that acrylics weren’t necessarily the paint most suited to

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