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Caravaggio Inspired

I love the Italian painter Caravaggio – his use of light and shade (known as chiaroscuro), and his method of painting first in black and white (known as grisaille) before building colour on top with washes. I found that the grisaille style really suited my preferred method of painting. This was actually my first real

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Al Swearengen

For a while, I was really inspired by the TV series Deadwood. I loved the lighting and the characters and the costumes and the backdrops. This was one of my earliest paintings, done in acrylic. Shortly after this I started using oils and never looked back (the blending on the acrylics was a nightmare –

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