Adding Texture and Interest to a Painting
The top painting is the after and the bottom one, the before. I was originally happy with the first draft of this painting and entered it a couple of shows with disappointing results. I took a hard look at the painting and realized that the starfish was lacking a personality and texture. It was very flat and just didn't match the rest of the painting. I went for my go to fix, my gel pens. I shaded the edges of the arms with a glaze pen and then did hundreds of circles i
