Took some self-portraits this past weekend for new material to work with and tonight I worked on the gel transfers for the compositions I picked out. These portraits have a lighter color pallet than my last two works...am trying out matte finish instead of luster so see if it enhances the skin-like quality of the pieces. Interestingly, the matte acrylic gel made the compositions expand when wetted; I'll see if they shrink back to normal size tomorrow. I'm still contemplating on whether I like the larger or smaller compositions....so many questions when you start something new!