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Monday 29 December 2014

Talking Dolls - stage 1

This amazing looking toy store was in the same area of Detroit as the previous picture, "Topless". This is just one end of quite a long building that runs along the road covered in brash colours and typography, I chose this end because I like the words "Talking Dolls"! I intend to paint it with a low afternoon sun projecting tree shadows onto the building with "Talking Dolls" being the only words fully in the light. This was a device to make the picture more interesting and I needed to break up the lines of the building in some way. I first "drew" it up with an old bristle brush using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple thinned with Liquin and Lukas Number 5 Medium so that it would be relatively dry in the afternoon to put down some tone using the same colours but thinned with turpentine and Liquin and applied with a rag and brush.


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