I painted a 10" x 8" oil on canvas sketch about sexual slavery. My intention was to create a 5' x 4' painting of the sketch.
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Because the 5' x 4' size was still intimidating me, I then took the lower right part of painting and did a version of it on a 30" x 24" canvas.
Holly
10" x 8" Oil on Canvas
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As a painting, I felt this was too derivative of Gauguin. I also wanted to something bar like to give a feeling of imprisonment. So I took photos of trees in my yard and of the painting and put them together using layers in Photoshop.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn3iD6yn1ksjVFPd43gEcmmHD53evpKNZi8KOE79rnsp_QAgnFHtLgxaS7Mq7rhyphenhyphenRNM8W9YFu6wa2A0oNt4d8a46ds_OncXY7wnvfTpwCbcThGZUyZGW3Rf-PpyYFccPRjeie59B-gUQ4d/s400/gauguin-2web.jpg)
I was happy with this image, so I painted tree trunks on the original 24" x 30" canvas.
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Imprisoned
23" x 30"
Oil on Canvas