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Acrylics on canvas. This painting gave me so much grief. At first it was a painting of Brighid, believe it or not. (The red-orange "halo" in the painting used to be her hair.) Then I decided to paint a generic gothboi-type "portrait," but couldn't get it right and wound up painting over it six thousand times and getting all sorts of comments about how it looked like a woman ("it's the long hair." "it's the red lips." "it's the delicate shape of the face." bah! fie!) before putting him aside for several weeks. I returned to it again and again, generally getting nowhere. What you see here is a stopping point, not a finished painting. Half the class still wasn't sure whether it was a man or a woman; I still say it's supposed to be a man (perhaps a poor example of the genre I would now call bishounen).

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