I finally finished it! It's been about a month in the making now. I ended up using acrylic paint in the background to make parts of it matte, but it wasn't very effective. The areas I used it in are just more black and you can't see as much of the color of the Yes! paste. I'm tired of having sticky fingers.
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This originally was an idea I had as a play page in my sketchbook in September. I ended up doing a planning page for it to sketch out what I envisioned for the composition. It was then that I realized it couldn't be confined in a single sketchbook page, so I chose to do it on a larger separate sheet of paper. When I started this I thought it would take about two days: one to sketch out the portraits and trace them each with wire and another to attach everything. As of right now it's been on and off for about three weeks, so it's definitely a larger project than I thought it would be. I wouldn't say it's much of a play page anymore, but more of a long term experiment. The Yes! Paste is mostly why it's taken so long. Because each portrait is a continuous piece of wire and I wanted them interlocked where they overlap, when I was attaching each I'd somewhat deconstruct the portrait, attach them to the paper with paste, and then while it was still setting, I'd reshape. The Yes! Paste would then take a couple of days to set entirely and hold the wire, and I did each portrait section by section. I'd attach a certain area every few days and wait. In the meantime, I inked each of the sketches of the portraits I traced. I wasn't planning to do anything further with them, but the wire portion was slow-moving. As of right now both of the portraits are completely attached. I don't consider it finished though. I'd like to manipulate the texture of the background and add a bit of red wire accenting. The texture of the background is all from the Yes! Paste when I spread it with a palette knife or when the wire shifted and moved the paste around. It's all glossy, but I'd like to make sections of it matte again.
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