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cool to see your techniques and methods dawn!!

portraits - people in general ! - are really tough; you did a great job!

Original Post: 4 hours of Kissy Kissy...

I have had a number of emails asking how I painted Kissy Kissy in 4 and a half hours...frankly, I don't know, because I NEVER paint fast or loose, even when I painted billboards at a pretty good pace, it was never this fast.

After thinking about it, I guess I prepared myself well before I ever put brush to canvas. I found good reference pictures, picked my color range, and had my final image strongly in my head before I started.

I wanted to do a painting of me as a child with my dog, nose to nose. I didn't have Misha when I was little, so I searched the internet for some children's profiles, figuring I could adjust a face to look more like me as a youngster (dang, that was a LONG time ago!).