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Perceptions of a Teenager ... Sold
Published: 2007-03-07 10:47:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 26697; Favourites: 679; Downloads: 241
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This is a portrait I painted of my stepdaughter for a very big Portrait prize in Australia The Moran Portrait Prize which was selected and will be hung on Tue. 13th March 2007 there were over 500 entries and only 30 get selected.Please visit my web site www.graemebalchin.com
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Thanks thats very kind of you
Everytime I try oils it ends up looking muddy how do I avoid that?
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Start with the darks and paint them in thinly, don't use much paint then build on with lighter colours when you know they are right. You can thin them with a medium if you want which will dry faster and then they wont pick up as much as you go over them.
There is a demo in my scraps you can see how I do it.
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Thanks the tutorial was very helpful
I've favourited it for when I try have a go.
Do you use turps or white spirit or anything like that to paint with?
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No it can cause problems later with cracking so it's best to avoid it. If you have some No.1 medium or purified oil it is not needed.
The oil is slow drying the medium is faster.
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Thanks 
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Good luck!
I love the meaning and realism.
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Most girls do, country and city. Thanks.
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Thanks Nina, keep up the good drawing.
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Its good. Like she is trying to make a statement.
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She made a statement alright. Thanks.
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she looks so fierce! what medium is the writing in the background?
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The whole painting is in oils but I wanted it to look like a blackboard was done in chalk. She can be fierce when she wants.
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Ah, it does look like writing on a wall, although the font reminded me more of graffiti on a wall than chalk on a blackboard. So i was wondering if you had used a different medium to write out the words, since there aren't many brushes out there that would lend themselves to this ease of writing
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I used to be a signwriter and sign brushes are ideal for it, the hard part was doing it rough and not neat like I had been trained to do.
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Congratulations on being selected for this prestigious showing! The portrait is marvelous and I am sure that anyone who has had a teenager or is a teenager relates to this. Barrie
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All the teenage girls relate to it that's for sure. Thanks.
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Thanks, it took a long time to put it all together.
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Great work, I like the texture in the hair and lighting on the clothes.
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Thanks Charles,sometimes they just come together.
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Beautiful work! Love the composition, pose, tone... everything!
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Hey how's it going mate. This is one of my special paintings, off a special young lady and it got selected for the richest portrait prize in the world, only 30 get in. Didn't win, bugger, but anyhow.
Thanks for the comments mate, don't know your name.
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A real shame it didn't win (congrats on getting selected - well deserved)... a great piece of work (the sort of thing I aspire to but will never attain
Keep sharing your excellent work
Jan
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Bloody oath it was a shame, see how I go this year, it's $150,000 first prize.
I'll keep sending Jan, thanks mate.
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Amazing! The pose is great, and I love the background! And a cute dress!
Congrats on the prize and the DD,
you totally deserved it.
And I gotta say- I know how she feels!
xD
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I hit a nerve with this one most teenagers relate to it. Sometimes they just all come together.
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this is my favprite, its amazing!
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Thanks, a lot of teenagers like it.
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Thanks it seems to appeal to a lot of teenagers.
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hey!
i was there on the opening night
for the photgraphic prize
you are amazing and extremely talented
This painting is stunning
hope you are well
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Thanks mate, I only just got it back, it's hanging in our gallery now. Good to meat up with you, hope you go well this year.
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Oh wow! I just saw this at Hervey Bay Gallery!!! How awsome! This one was one of my favourites, (and also "Blood Sweat and Fears" which was painted in his own blood, a bit icky but I loved it as soon as i saw it.) Your painting is truly striking and demands attention. Your stepdaughter really stands out from the canvas like she is illuminated with a spotlight and separate from the background. You are so clever to have separated the two from eachother and also to be able to get the words to stand out as well. I love it. Much more dramatic in real life, the skin looks like skin! I'm so thrilled for you, congratulations.
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Great, thanks for writing, I've had a few sightings from people around the country.
I have to pick it up next week, I haven't seen it for a year. Did you read it all she wrote it for me to do this painting, I will have to do a book with it.lol
Did you know it was on here when you were looking at it or have you only just found it.
I have just put my entry in for this year and should be told tomorrow if it has gotten in, I will let you know.
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hi graeme,
yes i did read what she had written in the background of the painting, and had a chuckle at the end, it reminded me of when i was a teen. Now i have pre-teens who will be saying the same thing to me in time, i gather.
I was actually looking at my friend and i saw your avitar on her comments and recognised the painting straight away! I was so thrilled to see that you were here, especially so soon after seeing the real painting in the flesh.
Good luck with you latest submission. You should know by now if you got in, as it has been a while since you wrote your last comment.
Nice to meet you anyway, I shall add you to my list of friends.
April x
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Bloody latest submission didn't make it, nor did my Sulman but you get that.
Glad you liked the painting though, it's in our gallery for International Woman's Day now.
Thanks for the fav. nice to meet you too.
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Thanks Adrienne, I seem to have appealed to a certain age group with it. It's still on tour around Australia I haven't seen it for a year now.
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Thanks, it's a bitch you can't read the background the painting is on tour for a year and I can't re photo it till it gets back next year.
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Maaan, every time I see this on my "Random favourites" makes me wanna 
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That's a rap up, thanks mate. You sure you love food before sex and art.
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