I have been quite comfy in my practise without even realising how comfy I have been, so these challenges I have set myself this week have really bounced me out of that. Sketching with a single colour of paint is obviously very different from producing a portrait that is resolved, mixing skin tones, and using colour. I’m enjoying the challenge, and of course I don’t mind if I think the paintings aren’t great, because that’s not the point of the exercise. The point of the exercise is exploring the process, and finding the things that work for me.
The two portraits I have completed, yesterday and today, are quite small, and while I think the results are interesting, I think I’m going to try a larger face tomorrow, and stick with one or two larger brushes, and see what happens.
Today was interesting in a different way because I also had company, with Himself doing his own version of the portrait in graphite. Usually I paint alone, so it was interesting.
Here’s the painting. Acrylics on paper 12×16″. 3 hours.
Colours: phthalo green, phthalo turquoise, titanium white, yellow ochre, light bismuth yellow, alizarin crimson, pyrrole red, french ultramarine.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
208/300
Thrummie Bizzum 
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