After spending a year and a half on intensive skill-building, culminating in my Face Forward show, it was time to reflect on where to go next with these newer tools.
This piece, completed in late October, serves as the bridge: collaging a printout of reference material onto canvas, isolating it with a couple of thin layers of acrylic, then working in oils, found me working much more loosely than I was able to with just the paint.
As things start loosening up post-vaccination I also find myself drawn to working less from online muses and more to local people and places. There are a few small canvases already on the easels, works in progress that point me to the coming new year with excitement.
Tori x 3, mixed media on canvas