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i wanted to create a picture of a child soldier in action, where you could sense his fear. I found this
 
children at war
picture of a boy soldier in Burma, which I thought might be perfect. He's listening for his life , the enemy somewhere
 
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in the jungle....and it's not a story for him......it's real. Theres no switching off the game for him.
 
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    Compositionally, I found the ' s '   I start applying the colours of my   it's going well, and I'm wary of
    shape that the twist of his body   earthy pallette. raw sienna, sap   destroying what I have created.
    creates gives it a feeling of   green, burnt sienna, white and   I have decided to include the
    movement, and a charged   black, leaving the complementary   jungle background with this
    atmosphere.This is what I try to   colour to the sap green, the red,   picture, to build up the
    capture in the first stage of   showing between blocks of colour   atmosphere . I wonder if I should
    drawing out with paint.   This keeps it feeling lively.   put backgrounds in some of the
            others?
           
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