I am highly amused at the fact I spent most of my art time painting the Let’s Face It class portrait in oils, fannying about with values, and repeatedly reminding myself this was not a colour exercise, it’s a value exercise.
I was pretty happy with my sketch, but as the oil paint moved around, so did the facial features. I got to the stage where I need to stop to let the paint rest a bit, so I tried to resolve it, and I was about fifty per cent happy with it, and happy enough to call it a class exercise and move on.
Then I grabbed a thinner piece of paper that I had prepped for oil, but decided it was too thin, but since I just wanted to use up the paint on my brush, I wasn’t too bothered about that.
I did a fast and loose sketch with the muddy paint on my brain, and was highly amused at the way it turned out to be my favourite study of the reference. So now I am thinking I am going to have another go and improve on my first attempt.
A good painting day, tho.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
252/300
Thrummie Bizzum 
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