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Darlene Twitchell - Portraits and Fine Art
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Portraits and Fine Art by Alpharetta, Georgia artist, Darlene Twitchell.
Recent Posts
Riley Staring Off into the Wild Blue Yonder - Oil - WIP 1 & 2
Here's the underpainting for the painting I'm working on from the sketch I did last week. I did the underpainting in acrylic (this time I used water as a thinner LOL) because I wasn't feeling patient enough to wait for an oil underpainting to dry.Her...
Pastel Portrait - Finished
I changed the background and am much happier with it now, there was just far too much going on before....
Pastel Portrait - Work in Progress 2
I'm not loving the background in this, my original thought was that the wall angle would add some interest but I decided to axe that and go for a simpler background....
Pastel Portrait - Work in Progress 1
While the baby oil on Big Red dries...Here's the initial sketch of the pastel version of the portrait I previously had done in pencil....
You're Kidding Right? I Didn't Seriously Do this Did I?
Last night i decided to do a quick background for a painting I want to do. I know I want it mostly red and since the gesso I used was white I thought I'd just slap on some red acrylic paint as a foundation so that I could paint over it tonight in oil...
Callaway Gardens Building - Oil Painting
Callaway Gardens Building12x12OilHere's a painting of a building at Callaway Gardens. This building has a restaurant upstairs on the opposite side and a shop and something else on the lower floor on the side that's showing. I was bummed because by th...

