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I gather you've got a WIP, but have been asked not to share it yet - hence your cryptic contributions thus far.
Well that's a bit of a snag, in't it? How about working on something else at the same time, and sharing that instead, just to keep us going...?
I've found a snag with showing WIPs - because my last four paintings have only been 10" by 8": so I finished them in one sitting, and there wasn't much "in progress" about it. But I shall return - I think I made the mistake in one of mine of actually doing it in stages just for the purpose of showing it developing, whereas I might have got a better painting by just cracking on with it. That's what can happen when you try to be helpful.....
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It's probably been done with quite liquid acrylic, or just possibly acrylic ink - so it's the more fluid form that you need if you're going to try this, diluted with medium or water, and built up bit by bit, in added layers: you can work wet into wet paint (usually just called wet-in-wet) or you can let the previous layer dry before working over the top. I suspect the artist has used a combination of these approaches, if she used a brush. It looks as if there's some pen work in there as well - a form of line and wash. (Just because it looks like that doesn't mean it is: the artist might have used a quite different range of materials, and if you can contact her, or she has a website, you might be able to find out more. It's also possible she used a digital medium, about which I know virtually zilch.)
The acrylics likely to work best for this approach are System 3, by Daler Rowney - widely obtainable - or Chromacolour (in pots, not the tubes) obtainable online from Chromacolour UK. There are other brands, but those are the free-flowing ones I know best, and both would work for this technique. It won't be easy, from the look of it ....
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