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Paul Cato is still a living artist!
By Paul Cato | August 23, 2007
My apologies to all those who have wondered if I had disappeared or died whilst working on this big painting. I have had several emails and even phone-calls from people who are wondering what’s happening and asking when I am going to update the website. It seems that there are a lot of people watching the progress of this painting and looking forward to the finished result.
The truth is that I did take a break from actual painting on this project for about three weeks, a month or more back, but I did do some sketching and even some photoshop doodling during that time as I rearranged the foreground concept a number of times and did some work on the perspective and scale of the entire foreground. Since then the painting has been progressing slowly but steadily.
I have deliberately kept the foreground in relatively neutral colours and concentrated on basic values until the entire canvas was covered with paint (not just the washed underpainting). Then just in the past few days I have brought out the warm tints and flicked a few strategic strokes here and there.
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