Toothiness

100 Day Project Day 41

I don’t think practise makes perfect, I think practise makes the process more fun, which is what I am having in my sketchbooks just now. I am really enjoying the way this ridiculous idea that I would blog every day about the art I made has somehow a) not been abandoned, and b) evolved my art process significantly. I never expected the way writing would impact drawing and painting, but that’s what’s happening.

Here’s a thing I did in my sketchbook today:

I used two coloured pencils and an image that popped up in my feed. Even just forty days ago I don’t think I would have just grabbed a pencil and tried to draw this, it’s quite a complex portrait, but today I didn’t even really think about it, I just got going.

There’s lots wrong with it, but I’m happy with where I got to. There’s another blank page on the back of it, I can always go again. Coloured pencils are a mixed bag for me, which is one reason I have been taking my latest for the potrtaiture class slowly, because the end stages involve coloured pencils.

I did spend a while on that painting today, though, and brought it on a bit. I am still not convinced by the mouth area, but the joy of acrylics is the painting over the ugly stages. Worst case scenario is that I have a lot of gesso in my stash (:

I might move her from the table easel to the standing easel tomorrow and see if that helps.

I’ve just noticed that both these portraits include teeth, and teeth are something I tend to avoid, because they can end up looking comical, or horrific, lol. So maybe I’m improving there too.

It’s fair to say I really enjoy using things like turquoise and magenta for skin because you can get away with a LOT, compared to trying to create realistic skin tones. I am definitely practising patience with my painting with these classes, which is hopefully informing my more abstracted faces. I like seeing the growth in my art this 100 day thing seems to be incubating.

Ceasefire now,

Til the morn,

Suzanne