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Earlier this year, I started in earnest back into oil painting has I’d been planning a new approach to my career. It got me to thinking about how often I’ve been at this crossroads but always had hit a brick wall. Each time I’d tell myself, “This time it’ll be different!” Years ago I thought I had the answer when I started painting portraits of made-up creatures. I’d come upon a theme that I thought I’d really like to explore: MONSTERS OF THE CIVIL WAR!

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Here’s how I went about putting together everything I needed to explore this vision.

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