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Introducing my paintings
I dont want to say much about my paintings, because i think that in the art world there are more philosophers than artists. I like the desing of Mucha and the simplicity of Sargent. Some of my paintings ideas as from internet ( mostly background design ), some are from real life. 
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What sizes are these pieces and what materials do you use?
For the designs around the outside, do you plan them out in detail or are they straight from your imagination as you paint? You capture the style of Mucha very well.
Cheers
Materials - oil on canvas.
The design is planned. I draw on paper and transfer them on to the canvas.
My tubes are - titanium white, lemon yellow, yellow ochre, cadmium red, q. magenta, burnt sienna and ultramarine blue and sky blue. I will post a picture of my palette. I print 4 values scale and put my telephone on monochrome and when mixing i try to get close to the printed value. I keep my values the same - for example my lightest yellow is the same value as my lightest red/ blue/ brown and with the others 2, 3, 4 scale is the same. I store them in the freezer and the last more than 6 - 7 months, if not even more. When framing i always look the frame to be a color that is in the painting. Sometimes if the blue is alone on the canvas, i buy a blue frame so that the eye doesnt get concentrated only on the alone blue spot. When i make a layer, i gently scrape everything with a palette knife, because it makes the lines blend ( i`ve take that from Bouguereau ). Every new layer when finished is scraped, so everything can be even and soft.