Lazarus Rising

Acrylic on wood panel, 27x13 1/2 inches. A new piece.

A lesson learned. Never assume that what appears to be a raw untreated piece of wood is in actuality a raw untreated piece of wood. After priming and pretty much finishing the center girl I came back the next day to find that the area of her face (and about a quarter of the background had turned a dark mottled grey. Instead of breaking it and burning the pieces (which I would have done not so many years ago) I methodically scraped, cleaned, re-primed the area - and re-painted the face. Be that as it may, she's truly a ghost of her former self. An apt outcome considering the theme of the piece.

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