"The texture of experience is prior to everything else." -Willem de Kooning Untitled-Large Sumi Brushstrokes (1970)

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Here’s some close ups of my little painted robin so you can see the brushstrokes. It was quite a challenge painting those lobster pots!

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1665 is the year that Gerard de Lairesse (Luik) arrives in Amsterdam. Shortly after thet he visits Rembrandt in his Rembrandt paints his portrait in coarse brushstrokes, in which the affected face of De Lairesse (syfilis)has not been made more beautiful than it is.

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