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FASHION ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY: PAINTING ON HARDBOARD AND MIXED MEDIA PAPER

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Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! Welcome to another post in the Fashion Illustration Friday category.   As you might have expected, today I will show you some new fashion illustrations of mine. Moreover, I will briefly comment on advantages of certain mediums.  Before we get to that I will also tell you how I ended up painting these illustrations on wooden boards. We will start with two fashion illustrations that I painted with acrylic paints (royal talens #notsponosored) on leftover hardboards. This is the first time I painted on such a surface. Naturally, you can buy hardboard for painting in art shops,  but you can also try up-cycling and paint on hardboards, wooden boards,  planks and scrap wood of any kind.  One day it occurred to me that someone might have some leftover hardboards or wood boards. Obviously, using something like that would automatically make my art more sustainable.  So, I asked my husband to ask his friends, assuming that someone might know someone who wor