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Carolyn Hancock is a portrait artist residing in Richmond, Texas, whose work is described as contemporary realism. She is a pastel only artist, her techniques with the medium combining thick impasto strokes and texture with translucent smoothness. A lover of color, she uses it with a gentle touch offset with a vividness that defies the pastel mediu...