Thank so very much for this information...I greatly appreciate the advice, which I will definitely follow up on this very afternoon. I also want to send KUDOS galore to you on this splendid fabric portrait. I was told if you have a photo reduced to black and white either at your home computer and printer or take it to an office supply...they can do that and blow it up. Then you take a piece of ruby plastic and view your color choices through that "lense" and that process eliminates color and shows only values which might make the kind of thing I am headed to doing...easier?
As for trying to join a local guild. Maybe being a guy and not really knowing if I might "fit" or not they never replied ...so I just do my thing. I also know when I took my one and only class, everything in the way of dynamics in the room changed ...the jokes, inclusionary language and eyebrows said volumes.
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