After a lot of pottering cleaning gel plates, and gel plate storage clamshells, and cleaning stencils, and brayers, and brushes, and brush pots, and then sorting out the cat litter bucket for all my acrylic water, ready for collection tomorrow, I got stuck in to working on a 16×20″ canvas.
For some reason this pic has uploaded a little blurry, but it’s just the starter layer, so it’s not a big deal. I toned the ground with fluorescent magenta, because why not, then grabbed some charcoal and started sketching.
There’s a lot to change, but that’s fine, I just really wanted to get it started today while the idea is fresh, and so it’s there looking at me tomorrow when I’m tempted to pretend I don’t know what to paint.
I, of course, have just acknowledged to myself that I have picked yet another reference with the kind of slight head tilt that likes to throw me off. I’m calling it the Tennant Tilt.
This one is a tribute, so I am focusing on getting a likeness. I don’t think portraits always have to be about likeness, but practising that skill is good brain work.
That colour, tho.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
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Thrummie Bizzum 
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