<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[deblácus.com]]></title><description><![CDATA[deblácus.com]]></description><link>https://www.deblacus.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:17:19 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.deblacus.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[How I Approach a Portrait]]></title><description><![CDATA[How I Approach a Portrait: Notes on Self-Taught Figurative Work I'm often asked how I learned to paint and draw, and the honest answer is: mostly by doing it wrong first. I'm a self-taught artist working in oil, charcoal, pastel and pencil from County Carlow, Ireland, and almost everything I know about portraiture came from sitting with a subject, getting it wrong, and figuring out why. Why faces Figurative work and portraiture pull me in because a face is never really still. Even in a single...]]></description><link>https://www.deblacus.com/post/how-i-approach-a-portrait</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8d80c0f1e4e9e4f710e5ce</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:48:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>