I spent some time today doing another two colour play exercise, but this time I chose my colours. I didn’t enjoy it as much as yesterday, and although I mixed some nice colours, I wasn’t feeling the interplay between a transparent paint and an opaque one. Not today.
It was a fun warm up exercise, tho, and I kept the turquoise on the palette and replaced the red violet with red oxide. Rusty turquoise colour schemes feature a lot in my work, it has to be said.
I thought I was going to do another portrait, but when I searched Unsplash for something to inspire me, I came across a figure that might be the figure pose I have been craving for months for a certain idea I have. Yay.
I set up a piece of A3 cartridge paper than had been prepped with gesso, and grabbed a size 9 shitty brush. I may have to rename these brushes to something nicer, because they aren’t shitty at all. They don’t even drop hairs. My scratchy brushes? Hmm. Better.
I have no idea how to paint the sea, by the way, so I just scratched away. It’s just a practise piece, working out an idea, but I do like how it looks. There is a bit of a problem with the value of the sea, and the value of the figure at her edges – they are too similar, but that’s being really picky on a working sketch.
Do you see where I have to fight my inner critic every step of the way?
Another good day.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
174/200
Thrummie Bizzum 
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