“Best thing about portraits is you capture something intrinsic, it’s a psychological thing,” she said. “It’s a quality you get when you know a person, it comes through.”
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She enjoyed exploring that quality while painting portraits, but the injury robbed her of the ability to do the continuous brush strokes and heightened concentration that portraits required. She didn’t let that stop her from creating, though.
“Athletes have to run, artists have to paint,” she said. “I started (since the accident) with seascapes and now I’m into landscapes, I can’t do portraits. In the meantime I’m lucky to have found something.”
Painting landscapes is different from painting portraits, allowing for a greater range of motion and relaxation in technique.
“It’s very centering,” Dupuis said.
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