Self Portrait, 40 x 22 inch image area, July 1, 2007, acrylic paint on Rives BFK paper

BFK is a very soft paper -- because the tip of the flow-pen actually touches the surface, the paper becomes abraded (deeply abraded) as the tip repeatedly passes over the same areas. The very rough and sculptural surface is quite attractice in this painting -- everyone who's seen it wants it. My wife, I think, got 'first dibs'...

-- Mike

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