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To wrap up this portrait I first began by painting our hair over where I initially wanted our heads to join, I followed the same process for painting the hair as I did in the post below.
I then painted the rest of our necks in using the same skin colour I had mixed for us before. I then began painting the thread that has sewn us together. I decided to use red for this as I thought it would stand out against the rest of the colours used in the portrait and draw the viewers eye to it immediately. I zig-zagged the threads back and forth between us, I then used a darker red to add depth to to the thread and added some frayed pieces sticking out from the thread to further show how we are pulling away from the idea that our internal portraits or identities are tied together or should be seen as one and the same. I then used a dark brown shade to paint in the holes in our necks that being sewn together would leave. After this I used more of the blue and green shades around these holes to show how the skin was being pulled and dragged.
After this I began on the background which I wanted to keep simple not only for time but also to not give the viewer anywhere else to look then to the uncomfortable scene I had painted. I decided to create a simple gradient from black to white for the background as I feared that leaving it all black would dull the painting down. I used a very large flat brush to create the background and to blend it all together.
In the end i am extremely happy with how this painting turned out and as a notoriously slow painter very proud I managed to finish it all in one day. With this process I forced myself to lean into my own art style and let go of any pressures that my paintings have to be hyper realistic to be good. I think this painting captures my idea for this brief well as it showcases how uncomfortable being treated together as one with your twin is. It tends to have long lasting effects on your sense of identity and often drives us to make our external portraits starkly different from each other but in the end we can’t ever escape people seeing us as one.