I am a few weeks behind in keeping up with the Let’s Face It classes. This is fine, you buy the course, you have access to the classes for life, but it is nice to get the community feel of the class group. I’m going to jump back in with whatever class lands on Monday, and start there, and then just work through the ones I haven’t done yet as and when.
The way I have engaged with this course is not linear like the week-to-week dropping of a class might encourage. For example today I have returned to the portrait reference provided in the first class of the year, and painted it again, using my process I have developed for myself with my loose caput mortuum acrylic and my Shitty Brushes.
This is the painting I did in January, for Week 1, with Kara Bullock.
I have returned to this reference a number of times, using different mediums, and today I thought about the original painting I did, and how I might make the same painting, the same portrait, in a more expressive style, in a more *me* style.
I have gone through all my sketchbooks and whatnot to find all the pieces I have done with this specific reference photo, and here they are (I think I have them all)…
This is fun to put together like this, because they are all done on different days, in different mediums, on different substrates, in different sizes, and obviously I was in different moods.
The reference really annoys me, lol, because the angle isn’t quite front facing, and the tilt makes the nose really challenging to get, which might be the attraction for me.
Lots of other things went on in my “studio” today, because – did I tell you? – I got a new workbench that has changed everything.
It also now has a stain on it from painting. Oops.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
153/200
Thrummie Bizzum 
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