The Secret- work in progress- day three
At this stage I’m still working on the underpainting, working in acrylic to try and speed up my production times, at the moment it’s taking about three months to finish a single image and this just isn’t viable. The aim is to use acrylics to sort out the composition and the drawing and not to move onto oil paint until I’m basically happy with the image. In the past I’ve spent months fiddling with a nearly completed image because I’ve noticed that the drawing was flawed, or I didn’t like the placement of a particular form.
Helen Hopcroft: an artist's life 