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Colour Tests for “Torso” Painting

September 28, 2018September 27, 2018 by Karolina Szablewska

colour study mock-up oil painting more human than human oil series

Time for your opinion. I’ve been trying the Flemish painting technique recently, which involves using a greyscale layer to build values, then glazing colour over top. I’m working on this painting with oils. Over the last month, I’ve collectively already spent about 14 hours on this image. I wanted to get things just right … Read more

It Takes Time to Compose an Image

July 20, 2018 by Karolina Szablewska

sketches for lamentation of gaia oil painting sci-fi art

This painting was a challenge from the very sketches I started with. Since it’s been a whole year since the last oil painting of this series, this is the second painting so far in a series that is loosely working itself out to be about technology, medicine, and disability. Unlike the last where I … Read more