Sketching With Oils

100 Day Project Day 13

I took a long time to get going with any sort of art today, despite having scribbled a list of things I wanted to get into to have a full-on art day, hopefully without also flooding the bathroom.

It’s just the natural dust settling after my two days of creative high, I suppose. I don’t usually execute a piece that size that quickly, and I’m wondering if I should try it more often, because I am definitely liking that the painting is done and over, and not at risk of entering that place where paintings go to languish unfinished for all time.

To try and kick-start my day and get stuck in, I decided to start one of the Let’s Face It classes, and honestly I cleaned my art table, and got very engrossed in mentally cataloguing my oil paint tubes, and eventually I had a word with myself, stopped procrastinating and got stuck in to the first layer of the painting.

Once I got started, I had a lot of fun. It’s a way of using oils I haven’t tried before, and I’ll definitely be adding that to my tool kit. Once I was finished the first layer, the instruction was to do this or that to preserve the mixed paints til the morn, and honestly I’m just not that good, plus I was now in the mood to paint. I set the class piece aside to dry, and pulled out another of my mega bargain canvas pads, which I acquired for 50p each!

I didn’t really have any plan, other than using up the palette of yellow ochre tints, tones and shades, but I found a weird skull image on my phone, so I used that as a reference. I wasn’t trying to replicate the image, I was just using it for shapes, to give some form as I carried on trying out the loose, wet oil technique from the class.

I love outplaying my wee Bluebeard and ending up with two paintings instead of none. Cha cha cha.

Til the morn,

Suzanne