Month: August 2025
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Cobalt By Accident
I pulled out the wrong blue and it was on the gel plate palette before I noticed. I ended up liking the mistake, and enjoyed the shadows I got from it. I love a happy accident. Til the morn, Suzanne 549/600
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Cool Moves
This is my first go with this reference, and it was really fun to do. Til the morn, Suzanne 548/600
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Sketching Hares Day
Sketching hares today. Til the morn, Suzanne 547/600
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Figuring It Out
I spent some time looking over all the work I have done on this hands studies and figure with hands project as I felt like I was a bit stuck. I made some notes about things that I liked from all the different approaches, and things that I didn’t like, and tried to figure out…
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Workbook Pages
I saw a conversation in response to a sketchbook tour video recently, and it’s a fairly common type of conversation that I’ve seen numerous times. Of course I now can’t find the post, but as I said, it’s a fairly common thing you see online. The sketchbook in the video was a beautifully executed watercolour…
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Storm, Finally
The heatwave finally broke into a massive thunderstorm that went on for ages. There’s cool air tonight, and I am hoping for a good sleep. Til the morn, Suzanne 544/600
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Sketch Anyway
We’re having another heatwave. I hate it. It’s ridiculous. I did not feel like painting or anything at all, to be honest. It was just too hot, even in the room we do manage to keep cooler. In the end I pulled out the jumbo paint markers and did a couple of hand studies on…
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Sparkle
It was too hot to paint today, and it wasn’t a good day for various reasons, but I haven’t let that ruin the entire day. We did get our internet reinstated, and engineer arrived and fixed the cable, and now I have lots of things to catch up on. Sometimes I look at what’s happening…
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Handy Live Model
A live model is a luxury, and an entirely different challenge compared to a static reference photo. No matter how brilliant the sitter is, they will move, or the light will move, or the pose they chose will fatigue muscles. It makes the painting choices much more dynamic. It was fun to do, even if…
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Partial Projects
Today we started out with the intention of putting up some narrow shelves to hold in-progress canvases and boards. The idea being that if they are out where I can see them, I remember they exist, and might even work on them. We’ll see how that goes. Unfortunately, with it all planned out, there was…
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Expressive Arms
The question of the day was “do I need to order more Turquoise Green?” The answer may yet end up being Yes, but I do have a host of different versions of blue turquoises, and various yellows, so I went with mixing, not ordering. This delicious mix came from Phthalo Blue Green Shade and Cad…
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Reach
We have no internet, other than via mobile phone. As is typical, the ISP doesn’t think there is an outage, but we have no internet, and if it isn’t an outage, there will be an engineer on Tuesday. Tuesday 😶 No internet, no TV, no printer. It’ll be like the 1970s. Lol. There’s always paint,…
Thrummie Bizzum 