Hang on a minute, bleach? Can I ask how? I can see the drop marks on the background, obviously, but are the light browns from bleach too? Then, what made the white lines...

Can I say I wouldn't stare and ask all these questions except for something I like.

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Awesome portrait and even cooler choice of media. How hard is it to paint with bleach?

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Great piece of work you have here!

Basically bleach on this type of board (I think it might just be mat board...Canson type, because I can tell you it isn't Crescent board and it isn't posterboard or railroad board)....anyway, it comes out in these golden tones. The more you apply, the brighter it gets. The white highlights are white charcoal, and I did some correction work with regular charcoal.

The background was done with bleach and water mixed 50/50 in a spray bottle with a mask to cover Tom.

Thanks for the comments and questions.

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Not too difficult. Getting the right board helps. I had my second year students do a bleach painting (this was the demo I was working on to test out what worked and what didn't ). This board worked well because it turned these nice golden hues, but their board was more absorbent and if you brushed it on in thin layers it ate the paper...it worked better when they worked in puddles and drops rather than washes.

Experiment on different boards, don't use natural brushes, use synthetic or the bleach will eat them, and after bleach is exposed to the air for a while (couple days) it loses potency. Don't get it on metal, because if we've learned anything from chemistry or Futurama, it's that chlorine eats metal....so don't expect the ferrules on your brush to look pretty.

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Not a member of the Instant Gratification Generation.

Thank you very much.

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You're welcome!

Wow, if the composition itself doesn't amaze you its the style of media that will. You did a great job getting the tones with such an unorthodox media that really makes this peice stand out. I miss art class... Experiments will yield good results.

Great piece of art.
Hope you feel better, Ward!