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AcrylicsMud Bashin’ Buggy

Finding a subject can sometimes be one of the hardest things. Fortunately, my subject was requested by a client – so I had a picture to work with. The image was of her husband driving in a racing mud buggy.

The overall painting was constructed from the client’s reference photograph, capturing the Mud Bashin’ Buggy as the main feature … although much of it has been built gradually by using my imagination as each of the layers and colours were added. There is not much detail in the background, because

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