It sounds to me like you have an affinity for the type of paint application that Gregg Kreutz demonstrates in his DVD, "Mastering the Portrait -- Rose" (also called "The Painting of Rose").
It's a very thick application, put down and left alone, without any fiddling (a technical term, sort of -- British artist Alwyn Crawshaw always amused me when he chastised himself for getting too "fiddly" with an area). There is one exception -- which I thought he was brave to reveal, given the hue and cry against "blending" -- where he takes a clean blender brush and softens some of the areas on the model's face. This was essential under the circumstances. It would have been unnecessary on the portrait of, say, an older male model.
I think the DVD is a bit higher-end in price -- $120 or so -- so you might want to rent it -- for $18, I believe, though a membership might be required -- from
art-video.com. I might say that the DVD disk wouldn't play in my TV/DVD or one of my computers, but finally kicked in on the older computer. Some technical matter that exceeds the speed of light going through my day. Maybe they've fixed that.
The subject of the video, by the way, is
Rose Freymuth-Frazier, herself a highly accomplished artist.
I think it's worth noting, in this matter of application, that even highly finished, blended-look procedures are much easier to manage with generous applications of paint. Trying to blend together two scratchy, miserly applications is a sad thing to have to witness, especially if you're the one doing it.
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