Month: November 2024
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Woman With Glasses
Catching up on Let’s Face It today with a class by Mika Denny. This is my third piece using pan pastels, so I’m not well-practised at all with this medium. I do like it tho. I chose my own reference from Unsplash for this, more in keeping with my theme of women who aren’t amused.…
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Exhibition
Today has been a LOT, and I may not sleep much lol. I am very pleased to say that my portrait of Gisèle Pelicot will be part of the Scottish Society of Artists 126th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. My painting will be in the 30×30 small works section. !!! I…
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Bluesky and Sketchbook
My favourite thing about my sketchbooks is the way that you can go from ‘that’s nae bad’ to ‘I’ve forgotten how to see and draw’ on the same spread. Aside from just the fun of it, it helps me to decide which reference I’m feeling for a project. Lol. In other news, I have been…
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Foreshortened
I have a stack of unused canvases that should be embarrassing, but they’re not. I do seem to have acquired an excess of little 6″ square ones, tho. I think they are a nice size for friends and family to pick up as gifts for me, and I am never, ever going to say no…
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Charcoal and Cheek
I set myself several challenges this year, and one of them was to submit a piece in response to every Let’s Face It class. I have sixteen classes that are either partially done, or just in the well-I-watched-the-demo stage. In the spirit of staying current, this week’s class was by Robert Kelley, who is exceptional…
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Gisèle
‘It’s not for us to have shame – it’s for them.’ Gisèle Pelicot acrylic on wood panel 12×12″ Til the morn, Suzanne 270/300
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She’s Almost Here
The pic is a little off because the daylight ran out, but this is where I got to today. I’m very nearly finished, just another hour is probably all I need, so I will be finished tomorrow. I had a crisis of confidence this morning and decided I would not be finishing the painting by…
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Portrait with Hands
I spent several hours on this, and I am hoping that I will get her finished tomorrow, and maybe, just maybe, get another 12×12″ board filled with something. In between working on this precious portrait, I put a ground down and some background stencilling on another board, so it’s just a case of invoking a…
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Paint What (Who) You Love
That’s the advice I keep seeing in this place or that place where people are talking about developing your art. Paint what you love. That’s what I have been doing today, continuing on with the portrait I started yesterday. iykyk Til the morn, Suzanne 267/300
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Massive Crown
I’m continuing in the current motivated phase, which I am thoroughly enjoying, and today I finished the portrait I started the other day, and did the first main chunk of work on yesterday. 12×16″ oil on paper I immediately started working on another painting. It not a class, and I only sketched in the underpainting,…
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Oily Practise
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…
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Eye Roll First Pass
Lots still to do with this one, but I got further than I expected, and I’m quite happy with how it is going. Til the morn, Suzanne 264/300
Thrummie Bizzum 