For the hair, Andre might use varying sizes and colors of stacking bricks, thin plates, and slanted, single, and square bricks to create a textured effect.
Even in the days before my teacher came, I used to feel along the square stiff boxwood hedges, and, guided by the sense of smell would find the first violets and lilies.
He would concentrate on one square at a time until it was finished, like a fresco painter, then he'd move on to the next section. As if he were putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle.