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Welcome to another Art Blog. My name is Veronica Huacuja. I’m a plastic artist and an online art teacher. I have some good tips for your painting process. Hope you find them useful.

THIS IS A VERY TRUE PRINCIPLE. As artists, we must use all the resources we have at hand to produce our work. This is one of these cases where we can make a portrait out of video stills (snapshots) captured from an online true documentary. Have you ever made up a portrait of a video still? I had and want to share this art experience. 

To exemplify this, I add the following work:

Title: The Interview 5
 
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
 
Media: Acrylic on paper

Size: 95 x 68 x 0.1 cm
Year: 2019
Collection: Human Body  

PREVIOUS THOUGHTS. Some of my art interests are scenes related to people being interviewed. So, should we take video stills from a true documentary instead of a fictional film to work with? As a creator, I’m interested in portraying the realistic conditions of a human phenomenon or circumstance. 

I find the realism of true documentaries astonishing versus a fiction recreation from another creator (filmmaker, etc.). In this way, we artists decipher and transpose a human phenomenon to the field of art. It’s searching, understanding, and recreating or reinterpreting reality. Here, the fearsome illness known as schizophrenia. (1) I made up an 8 min video regarding the process of this artwork. You'll find it at https://www.patreon.com/posts/42155099

LET'S MAKE A MEANINGFUL REFLECTION FROM THE ABOVE. Research pays off when you find a source, such as the cited video. These criteria are from a creator’s point of view, and I add, a profound respect for the persons implicated in the referred situation.

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1 National Film Board of Canada for the Department of National Health and Welfare (no date). “Catatonic Schizophrenia”. Retrieved on May 10, 2020 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwGmWWxY48&lc=Ugz_PFGNm9kyLfvK8Gl4AaABAg 

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Welcome to another Art Blog. My name is Veronica Huacuja, a plastic artist, and an online art teacher. I have some good tips for your painting process. Hope you find them interesting.

PREVIOUS THOUGHTS. As literature has its own tools, one very impressive tool that we painters have is the use of diptychs, triptychs or polyptychs. A diptych, as we know, is an “artwork comprising two pieces or panels, that together create a singular art piece that can be attached together or presented adjoining each other”. (1) So, triptychs–3 art pieces–or polyptychs–over five art pieces conceived in a unit–are elements of the same tool, and they’re used by those painters whose creative process needs the narrative, sequential or other temporal speech. For these creators, these tools are just perfect!

GOOD ADVICE. As artists, we can try new things. Try this technique if you haven’t used before!

JUST A TASTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART. Contemporary great painters that used diptychs, triptychs or polyptychs are Francis Bacon (the artist) (2) in his powerful artwork, “Crucifixion”. (3) The other creator is Andy Warhol (4) in his work, “Marilyn Monroe”. (5)

In my case, to exemplify the latter, I add the following piece:

Title: Leonora 2. Homage to Leonora Carrington (6)
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 25 x 25 x 0.1 cm
Year: 2022
Collection: Women

I ensembled this painting–in a diptych–with “Leonora 1. Homage to Leonora Carrington”. (7) Visit any time the link to see an image of both works on a wall. (8)

MY EXPERIENCE DOING THE ARTWORK. I wanted to paint both pieces in a dramatic unit making up a special setup. That is “whatever might happen” in both pieces had to be simultaneous. I believe that’s something we can’t achieve as painters in a single piece.

MAKING A MEANINGFUL REFLECTION FROM THE ABOVE. Let’s permit ourselves the astonishment caused by the work of prominent artists of all times. After this first moment, we might want to study their body of art and include their techniques in our artistic process.

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I offer an ONLINE PAINTING PROGRAM for company groups or individuals at https://veronica.mx/online_painting_course

Thank you for reading.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diptych
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)
3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_(1933)
4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
5 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/61240
6 https://fineartamerica.com/featured/leonora-2-homage-to-leonora-carrington-veronica-huacuja.html
7 https://fineartamerica.com/featured/leonora-1-homage-to-leonora-carrington-veronica-huacuja.html
8 : https://veronica.mx//On-wall-238.jpg


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Welcome to another Art Blog. My name is Veronica Huacuja. I’m a plastic artist, and an online art teacher. I’ve some good tips for your painting process.

LET’S PORTRAY A CHARACTER THAT “SPEAKS” TO THE OBSERVER. To do so, let’s learn from one of the maximum exponents of the Spanish Baroque. (1) I’m talking about the impressive portraitist, Diego Velázquez (1599-1660, Spain) (2), and one of his masterpieces, “Juan de Pareja”, (3) in which Velázquez portrayed his model in a lofty attitude, almost “making him speak”.

SOME INTERESTING HISTORICAL DETAILS. Velázquez made up this piece while travelling to Rome, Italy to paint his historical model, Pope Innocent X, one of the most powerful man in Europe. This artist did this trip in company with his art assistant and slave, Juan de Pareja, who was a very talented painter himself. The painter made up the piece “Juan de Pareja” to practice beforehand making the masterpiece, “Portrait of Pope Innocent X”. (4) This is because he hadn’t touched the brushes since some months before.

One important detail of the relationship between Velázquez and Juan de Pareja: in 1654, Velázquez liberated him from bondage. He must have recognized de Pareja’s artistic talent, and, for sure, besides their established relationship, they must have been friends.

A TECHNICAL COMMENT. In “Juan de Pareja” we find the following elements: composition, gesture, pose, and dramatic lighting (chiaroscuro). These elements help to get to the core of whatever story any artist wants to communicate to the viewer.

I used these elements in the following artwork:

Title: Head Study 3
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Oil on paper
Size: 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm
Year: 2017
Collection: Portraits

MY EXPERIENCE DOING THIS ARTWORK. I applied the aforementioned elements to the piece, hoping my character "speaks" to the observer:

• Composition. Is the way we dispose the elements on the surface of a painting. This element introduces the observer into the painting itself, and across the entire surface.

• Pose. Is the particular attitude or stance that the model assumes by itself or by the artist’s guidance.

• Gesture. Is an emotional state that is expressed by the character.

• The lighting in chiaroscuro. “Is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition”. (5)

LET’S MAKE A MEANINGFUL REFLECTION FROM THE ABOVE. After the astonishment we might experience getting to know the artwork of prominent artists of all times, we can analyze their work and use their concepts, techniques, etc. in our own work.

Please write your opinions in the comment section. It will generate a very interesting dialogue.

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1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Baroque_painting

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez

3 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437869

4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Innocent_X

5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro

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My name is Veronica Huacuja, a plastic artist, and an online art teacher. I’ve some practical tips for your painting process. Hope you find them useful.

PREVIOUS COMMENT. Sometimes, as figurative artists, the agenda of a physical model doesn’t match with ours. Nor a friend or relative has the time to pose for us. So, it’s time to use other resources we may have at our disposal.

A SOLUTION. I discovered Blender–a free and open-source 3D computer graphic software–on the Internet. I learned its basics in many free tutorials hosted in YouTube and began sculpting my 3D models. It’s amazing. You can manage everything, all the variables: the physical features of the model, the poses, views, lights, colours. After accomplishing the model, you take what you consider the best snapshots. Then, in the physical world, you sketch and paint your artwork with traditional techniques (using the snapshots displayed on Photoshop or some other graphic software)!

I add the following artwork in which I used these procedures. This its data sheet:

Title: Head Study 75
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Oil and crayon on paper
Size: 108 x 91 x 0.1 cm
Year: 2019
Collection: Portraits

TECHNICAL COMMENTS. Some technical choices helped me to provide a powerful presence to the character:

- The medium format. Almost using 1 m2.
- The closeness of the character’s face displayed in a close-up. This treatment looks forward to provoke an emotional response in the observer.
- The strong black strokes I used to depict the features of the personage.
- The yellowish palette creating an atmosphere, which provides a sense of depth by representing three-dimensional spaces on the flat surface.

MATERIAL.

DIGITAL MATERIAL.

- Blender (any late version of this free software you find on the Internet).
- Digital tablet (I use and recommend one with hand pressure sensitivity. I use a Wacom tablet.)
- Photoshop (any late version of the software).

TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE MATERIAL.

- Painting paper. A large Bond paper will do the job quite fine. This brand of paper is lightweight: 13 or 20 pounds.
- Brushes. Thick brushes of 1.5 inch.
- Thick black wax crayon. I use the Crayola crayons brand. With this black crayon, you can make forceful sketches.
- Oil paints. I use and recommend the brand Winsor & Newton. It’s an expensive one, but you won’t have problems with the color sinking process some other cheap brands have.
- Turpentine. Use this material to dissolve the oil paint on the paper and the strokes made by the crayon. It won’t deform the paper. Use a mask to prevent inhaling turpentine fumes.

ONE LAST RECOMMENDATION: After I paint a piece, I always turn it around to see its different views. Sometimes, I even use a mirror to see its reflection. This helps me to decide which view is the best for the work.

LET’S MAKE A MEANINGFUL REFLECTION FROM THE ABOVE. By including new processes in our art techniques we’ll discover new resources that’ll make our artwork unique. This besides having fun while doing so.

Please write your opinions in the comment section. It will generate a very interesting dialogue.

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My name is Veronica Huacuja. I’m a plastic artist, and an online art teacher. I have some good tips for your painting process. Hope you find them interesting.

PREVIOUS COMMENTS. Have you ever had the experience of not having access to a physical model to practice your drawing skills with? Well, this is an easy need to be solved. I do the latter by sculpting clay models, pose them and draw them on paper. But to do so, I need at least two photos of a character to work with: a frontal and profile view. I usually find these two photos in official mug shots where the offenders are photographed by law enforcement. A good thing is that these images are in the public domain. This is one of those cases.

MY INITIAL SOURCES. Having the latter in mind, I searched on the Internet, and I found the two mug shots I required, and a very interesting story: the true chronicle of Bob Addison (1913-unknown, U.S.), inmate No. 35074, from the Virginia Penitentiary archives. So, I made up the clay bust and sketched the following artwork:

Title: Inmate #35074
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 10.1 x 20.3 x 0.1 cm
Year: 2022
Collection: The Relentless

BOB ADDISON’S TURBULENT STORY. This man began his criminal career at a very young age: 19 years old. In 1932, he “was convicted in Tazewell County of assault with a knife and sentenced to four years in the Virginia Penitentiary. He served 2 1/2 years and was released.” (1)

Sometime after, he got in trouble again. This time in Russell County, where he, too, badly cut a man with a knife, and prior to his trial, he escaped, never to be found until thirty years after. In between, he used another identity, Elbert Roy Clark, got married, and had six children.

This time, when caught–now being an elderly man–, he did not serve his time because “after an outpouring of letters recommending clemency, including one from the Governor of West Virginia, Virginia Governor, Mills E. Godwin, Jr. pardoned Addison on 27 January 1967.” (1)

MAKING THE ARTWORK. There are several advantages by making up our models with clay:
- We exert our artistic skills by perceiving and representing the volume of the figure (wide, tall, and depth). This doesn’t happen when we practice with a 2D model, such as using a photograph or a screen shot from a video. Our brain, sight and hands work altogether when we use a real-life model.

- We can pose the model in different positions: foreshortening, profile, frontal view, bird's-eye view, low angle view, etc., and add diverse sources of light to it. Doing the latter we can practice the chiaroscuro, high contrast, among other light treatments.

- We can make up a silicone mold out of the plasticine bust, and begin our sculptor's trade!

TECHNICAL PROCEDURES. As I said before, I used the frontal view and a profile image to make up the plasticine cast. It’d have been great if I could have found both sides of the character’s head (left and right). (2) This is because our facial features aren’t symmetrical, as we may know. But, nevertheless, I managed to make up the clay model avoiding symmetries. Then, I developed several sketches in ink. In this article, I included the one that I think reflects the once fierce personality of Bob Addison.

LET’S MAKE A MEANINGFUL REFLECTION FROM THE ABOVE. As artists, we can use of our creativity to solve whatever needs we might have to accomplish our work.

Please write your opinions in the comment section. It will generate a very interesting dialogue.

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1 https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2011/10/24/mug-shot-monday-bob-addison-no-35074/

2 Alfonse Bertillon (1853-1914, France) was a police officer and biometrics researcher who created and applied an anthropological technique to law enforcement. He invented an ID system based on physical measurements, and the use of mug shots to classify the offenders. Some of these mug shots had 3 views: frontal, and both sides of the head.

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You're welcome to another Art Blog. I'm Veronica Huacuja, a plastic artist, and an online art teacher. I have some good tips for your painting process.

SOME CONCEPTS. Chiaroscuro is an Italian word that refers to the lighting and shadows in painting. Who used this interesting technique were the great painters of all times, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Velázquez, among others.

This technique emphasizes light and dark, making out stand the most important figures in an artwork. “It was originally used while drawing on colored paper though it is now used in paintings and even cinema. It is very commonly seen in religious art, especially with the light emanating from the holy figure being painted. This process is used because it naturally draws the eye toward the focus point which the artist intends in a very natural way.” (1)

CHIAROSCURO AND TENEBRISM. I’d like to approach an interesting difference between these both techniques. Tenebrism comes from the Italian word “tenebroso”, which means dark. In this technique, shadow undergoes to black, there’s no intermediation between light and shadow. One of the great exponents of tenebrism is the Italian painter, Caravaggio (1571-1603, Milan, Duchy of Milan, Spanish Empire). On the contrary, chiaroscuro uses light and shadow to create depth behind the figures.

SOME COMMENTS REGARDING THE WORK I'M PRESENTING. As an artist, I’m concerned with abnormality and its effects on human life. To create this work, I read and watched testimonials of persons that have had the experience of an epiphany, which as we may know, is “an experience of a sudden and striking realization” (2), that can be mystical, religious, philosophical, etc.

In the work, I tried to embody this strange human experience using the chiaroscuro technique to add drama and three dimensionality to the piece. The data sheet of the work is:

Title: Epiphany 5
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Digital Art
Size: 9,448 x 8,740 px, 300 dpi
Year: 2020
Collection: Portraits

LET’S DEDUCE A SIGNIFICANT MEANING FROM THE ABOVE. We can study the body of art of the great masters, learn their techniques and use them in our work, in whatever genre we manage.

Please write your opinions in the comment section. It will generate a very interesting dialogue.

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1 https://artsandculture.google.com/usergallery/the-use-of-chiaroscuro/1AJCCI6Py2rgLA

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(feeling)

Welcome to another Art Blog! I’m Veronica Huacuja, a plastic artist, and an online art teacher for company groups and individuals. I have some good tips for artists or art practitioners. Hope you enjoy the work.

Have you ever wondered how to comprehend in a better way your own art production, and helping others–your collectors, for example–to understand it as well?

To carry out the above in my work and show its usefulness, I present the following piece. This is its data sheet:

Title: Head Study 45
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Oil and acrylic on paper
Size: 40 x 35 x 0.1 cm
Year: 2018
Collection: Women

PREVIOUS THOUGHTS. As you may appreciate, I created the artwork a couple of years ago. Since then, and without even noticing, I’ve accomplished other artworks regarding women's biographies. For this reason, I began cataloging these pieces. Because of this “insight”, I made up this collection: Women. The latter helps me understand my work in a better way. And hopefully, it also helps the observer to understand it, to invite or produce in him a state of mind that assists him in penetrating the work’s creation circle.

THE WORK AND ITS INSPIRATION. “Head Study 45” results after reading about Eva Perón’s (1919-1952, Argentina) afterlife, the First Lady of Argentina (1946-1952). As we may know, when she died, the physician, Dr. Pedro Ara (1898-1973, Spain), embalmed her body with magnificent success. Since then, she resembles the protagonist of the children’s story, “Sleeping Beauty”, immersed in a profound, peaceful dream in a forever youthful body.

Her embalmed corpse has a lengthy story. In one of its back and forth transcontinental trips from America to Europe, her coffin fell down and her nose broke. This detail inspired me to create the artwork of an anonymous woman with a broken nose, and to insert it in the cited collection. Nowadays, I'm thinking of developing a series of women with a broken nose.

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Welcome to this Art Post! Hi. I’m Veronica Huacuja, a plastic artist, and an online art teacher. I have some good tips for your painting process.

As an artist, have you ever wondered about the life of women that lived a couple of centuries ago? Some of them weren’t as lucky in life, as is the case of Mary Jane Kelly, Jack The Ripper’s last victim. But let’s start from the beginning.

I’m adding my artwork to exemplify the way I conceived this artwork, which might help your own art process. Its data sheet is:

Title: When Jack Had Time. Tribute To Mary Jane Kelly
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 80 x 60 x 2.5 cm
Year: 2021
Collection: Women

OUR ART INTERESTS. One thing that, as artists, we have to have clear is our art interests... and I add, to be loyal to them. So, that being said, as a painter, I’m interested in abnormality and drama. And because of these interests, I made this tribute to Mary Jane Kelly (1863-1888, Ireland) (1), which, as we may know, was one of the five canonical victims of Jack The Ripper (2) or Leather Apron in London, England, in 1888.

SOME PREVIOUS THOUGHTS. I paint what human life unhide at certain moments and permits me to feel it. Sometimes, when this happens, it is the extraordinary that unfolds, plentiful with deformity and drama. I seek to capture this deranged beauty with polysemous (different) meanings. Within these results, I always search too... to cause a visual impact, a blow, a strike upon the soul of the observer.

MARY JANE’S LAST MOMENTS. One early morning, the woman went into her small dwelling accompanied by this dangerous man, who was a stranger to her, but before entering she told a female neighbour, she was going to "sing a song", and began singing to herself–for the last time–“A Violet from Mother’s Grave”. (3)

As an artist, what amazed me, among so many other things, is the tireless fury of her perpetrator. On this occasion, this man had time in his hands.

IMAGES OF THE PROCESS. I’m adding some images that describe the creative process. You'll find them at https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-about-making-65815525

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1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Kelly

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper

3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry2AL_HtHRk

Welcome to another Art Post! My name is Veronica Huacuja, a plastic artist, and an online art teacher. I have some good tips for your painting process.

As an artist or art practitioner, have you ever start your day not knowing what your next project might be? It occurs to most of us, and while this circumstance happens, we can turn to study the work of prominent artists, and practice with their work.

SOME PREVIOUS QUESTIONS.
- Do you explore the work of other artists from different genres (photographers, sculptors, filmmakers, etc.)?
- Do you find useful for your own work to do this research?
- Do other artists’ artwork influence your own work?

I do these activities, and I recommend you to practice them. It enriches our work.

A PERSONAL ART EXPERIENCE. This time the oeuvre of the photographer John Coplans (1920-2003, United Kingdom) amazed me. I based the following artwork on his photograph, “Self Portrait: Torso With Large Upper Arm II”, 1985. (1)

To exemplify the above, I add the following data from the piece I'm presenting:
Title: Body Study 62
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Media: Oil on paper
Size: 28 x 21.3 x 0.1 cm
Year: 2019
Collection: Human Body

ACTIVITIES.
- Let’s explore and learn from the eminent artists of all times, and permit their influence on our work.
- Self-practice the art procedures I accomplished in "Body Study 62", which I describe in a video (1:42 min.) you can find at https://www.patreon.com/posts/practicing-our-30744058

MATERIAL.
-An oil paper will do the job just fine. I recommend the brand Fabriano, an Italian paper of at least 300 g/m2, which is a thick paper prepared for oil painting, or else a canvas. Always use material of excellent quality for your work. The size I recommend is the same as I utilized in this artwork: 28 x 21.3 x 0.1 cm.
-Thin, circular and rectangular brushes (half an inch wide, at the most).
-Turpentine
-Oil paints

LET’S DEDUCE A SIGNIFICANT MEANING FROM THE ABOVE. Would searching and studying the prominent artists’ body of art be a worthwhile experience whenever the ephemeral “goddess of inspiration” is not around? Oh, yes, these great masters can teach us so much!

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1 http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-coplans/self-portrait-torso-with-large-upper-arm-ii-Hgh0bnxRaKg6OtcUzX0acQ2

Hi! I’m Veronica Huacuja, a painter and an online art teacher. I have some good tips for your art process. Hope you find them meaningful.

SOME PREVIOUS THOUGHTS. We can make up two or more versions of a same artwork. We can explore the same topic for as long as we need, and understanding we’re not repeating ourselves, we’re doing a thorough exploration that requires our efforts, insights and capacities as artists. And the key point is to observe the interesting results we get out of this method. I add one important and a practical good matter: each piece we create in this process will be a different artwork in our portfolio.

A SIDE COMMENT. Francis Bacon (1909-1992, Ireland), one of the great masters of paint of the 20th century, painted for years the same topic, which was “Crucifixion”. So, if he did so, we can afford to make less the same thing. Can’t we?

To exemplify this approach in our process, I present this piece and its data:

Title: Woman in Brown, Study 7
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Digital Art
Size: 10,000 x 6,000, 300 dpi
Year: 2021
Collection: Human Body

A TECHNICAL COMMENT. As a traditional and digital painter, I make up explorations in both mediums on the same topic. So, in this case, one point we’ve to have in mind is that it’s never the same thing to make up the work on our desktop, using a digital technique, than to approach a 100 by 80 cm surface (or so) with oil or acrylics. To tell the truth, the latter version requires more from us than the digital version because in order to accomplish the work, we need to master the technique and the graphic space. So, if you first solve with success (1) an artwork, in whatever technique you chose, whenever you approach the same topic in another technique, you will know how to solve the work, and create within it “… beauty, skill, inherent meaning, uniqueness, and fulfilled intent.” (2)

To exemplify and compare the results of both works, I'm adding the data of the piece I created in traditional techniques, and its link:

Title: Woman in Brown, Study 8 (3)
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 80 x 60 x 2.5 cm
Year: 2021
Collection: Human Body

MATERIAL (of the digital artwork).
- Photoshop. Almost any late version of this software.
- Digital tablet with a pressure-sensitive brush.

LET’S DEDUCE A SIGNIFICANT MEANING FROM THE ABOVE. As artists, making different versions of a same artwork, helps us to understand in a better way our work. On the other side, these diverse explorations might drive us to new and unexplored results within our work.

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1 Success in this context refers to the satisfaction we gain after finishing an artwork we consider with quality.

2 https://emptyeasel.com/2006/11/18/how-to-judge-art-five-qualities-you-can-critique/

3 https://i1.wp.com/veronica.mx/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1-MODELO-HORIZONTAL.jpg?ssl=1