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Old 02-01-2003, 02:12 PM   #45
Peter Jochems Peter Jochems is offline
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Background

My personal feeling is that a mid-tone gray fabric for a background (for making the source photograph) is enough. In painting the work, one can manipulate this.

When choosing the background colour in the painting, I want the background to not be more colourful than the face of the person who is portrayed, and light enough to accentuate the silhouette of the person.

Peter
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