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I have finished this painting, or rather, I’ve stopped working on it. It’s not totally unsatisfying, but I couldn’t get the precision either of line or of color with acrylic paint. Joy and I went to the Kehinde Wiley exhibit at the De Young today, and aside from the beauty and gut-punching power of his art, I was also looking at the oil paintings and saying “How does he DO that?” His lines are razor-clean and his shading looks both impossible to do without a brush and also like no brush hairs can ever have touched that surface.

I will learn more about painting, I’m sure, and develop more control over the brush. For now, I loved working with oil pastels so much that I’m going to make another painting of the roses, same size, with that medium.