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Portrait painting is just so difficult. I really struggle with these. Whereas I can spend 15 minutes on a landscape and get the essence of the subject, I often find myself spending days and weeks to figure out a portrait.
How do you really get the character of the person onto the canvas?
A portrait is meant [...]

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I wanted to let everyone know about an amazing artist who happens to be my sister-in-law.
It’s funny but when I got married I didn’t realize the artistic talent of my husband’s family. Growing up in my family in Thailand and in Korat I was surrounded by artists. It was a very pleasant surprise to come [...]

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Finger painting isn’t just for kids. I was helping (read: doing) a school project with my son the other day and we decided to get a little dirty and do some hand prints and finger painting.
It got me inspired and so I found a little time the next day and made a small and quick [...]

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