Simple to busy: dirt, grime, spots, patterns, mechanical greebles, flames, shapes of the light and any element you wish. They ...

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Portrait of a Young Man, 1944 by Lucian Freud, Black crayon and chalk on paper In a luminous self-portrait from 1947 intended as a book illustration, he uses a variety of marks to create the ...

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