I carried on with my portrait in oils with the interesting eye-roll reference. I think she’s done for now, although I might come back and fiddle a bit more, but for now I am happy with this exercise.
I was thinking about my Word of the Year today – practise – and the way I have plugged away to build a daily practise, and plugged away at portrait sketches, and in the last wee while I feel like that work has paid off.
It means that when I get out of my comfort zone, like using oils for example, I am much more comfortable with the results. It doesn’t have to be the best painting ever, it’s the process that leads to better portraits. The same way I improved the way I look and see, and improved the way I express that, can also come about with more practise in a specific medium. So I want to dust off the oils more often.
With that in mind, after I finished her eye-rolling self, I just carried straight on with the other painting I sketched the other day, and thoroughly enjoyed myself getting her this far…
Dancing and painting while freaking out about the state of the human race.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
265/300
Thrummie Bizzum 
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