Preliminary Painting on Canvas

The Italian Influence

Painting Process

Here I am starting a painting on canvas board.  Clearly the drawing is influenced by classical style from my time in Italy.  That said, yes, I'm strict at the beginning with the drawing, but as the painting progresses my creative instinct will kick in because I don't like to be so rigid and tight.  After all, I'm an expressionist artist because I love to be "expressive.  So the final painting be sort of an organic process.  We shall see...

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