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If you are wondering where my Old Port harbour scene painting disappeared to, I had to temporarily take it off-line after submitting it to the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. I’m not really surprised or disappointed that my paintings didn’t get selected. [...] 
I worked on the depanneur sign today where I thought of adding some touches of orange to it, but I didn’t, afraid that the use of this complementary colour might come-off too bold. At this point I can tell the painting is almost done. There are still a few things that I want to work on. I notice that my brush strokes are getting bolder, loaded with thick paint over time. I like where this is going. [...] 
Already that looking at yourself in a mirror and paint what you see isn’t easy to begin with; I did this in dim light in my bathroom, which proved to be a little bit difficult to gauge the colours I layed onto the Masonite panel (I could see very well the colours on my wooden palette) [...] 
My painting featuring a young man poster pasting ads on a billboard is coming along nicely. I have had to extend my palette adding Carmin Red and Permanent Red to achieve certain colours, mainly those very bright almost fluorescent orange and pinks, that I wouldn’t have been able to with my regular palette [...] |
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