Month: October 2025
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Feet Posed
I didn’t have much time for painting today because I had visitors, and they left behind a four-legged lodger who simply must get bosies. I did have time for a quick study of some feet. Have a blessed Samhain. Til the morn, Suzanne 622/700
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Red Grounds Rule and things
This is a really fun, complex pose that really forces me to look at shapes and shadows, instead of trying to draw/paint a human. This is at the blocking-in stage, just using a larger brush make gestural marks to get the basic framework. In the process I decided that I definitely don’t like a certain…
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Art All Day Yay
I had a full-on art day today, just hours and hours of pottering and creating. I started out with a figure sketch in my A3 hands and feet sketchbook. I got the basics down, and then I had a Zoom session doing short, timed studies of landscapes with Orla Stevens. I am not much practised…
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Carmine Red Mood
I had a parcel due today, and it was due in a specific timeframe, and so I planned my day accordingly. I am one of those people who just can’t focus if there’s some sort of appointment or happening, but I thought it would be fine because the timeframe was morning. Pfft. The parcel, which…
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Fingers and Toes Again
I have run out of pyrrole red, but there’s more en-route 😉 I did have enough for this painting in my A3 sketchbook. I did a few other bits and pieces today, but this is my favourite. I’ve painted a version of this pose previously in a more muted palette. Til the morn, Suzanne 618/700
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Get It On Paper
The clocks changed overnight, and we reverted to GMT for the winter, and I am discombobulated, naturally. I had an idea, and this sketchbook page is the start of working out the idea. It’s definitely not a finished and resolved page, it’s just scratching an idea onto a page for later – what sketchbooks are…
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Mirror Distortion
A similar study to yesterday, playing with a limited palette, a mirror, and a mood. This is not a self-portrait, it is just using my face as a reference, but going off on a tangent, playing with distortion, and the weird shadows I was getting from the low slung winter sun outside. I took my…
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Haunted
I have been experimenting with different reds as grounds, and I’ve also been trying different versions of the very limited palette in this painting, trying different reds to see what I like. Today I used pyrrole red, and swapped the unbleached titanium for titanium white. I quite like it, and it is definitely a response…
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Inverness Trip to See Ken Currie: The Crossing An / Turas
We were up long before the crack of dawn for a day trip to Inverness, which is a long day, but, it turns out, entirely do-able. The reason for the day trip was to see an exhibition at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Ken Currie: The Crossing / An Turas. We set off for the…
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Rotating Projects
Another day of mixing things up and rotating projects. I prepped a canvas for an idea that I had a while ago, but forgot about until today when I was flipping through a sketchbook and came across the sketch. After the gesso was dry I decided to try out some of the flexible modelling paste…
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It’s pink but it’s white
I have this tube of fluorescent pink acrylic that is almost finished, and it’s a few years old, so I’m on a mission to finish the tube. I smeared it on this sketchbook page, where it is less likely to be a fugitive, but it makes working my values kind of interesting because it is…
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Limited plus quinacridone red
Today I took the limited palette I used in this painting and I added quinacridone red to the palette. I’m going to try adding different reds to this palette to see what happens, and which ones I like the most. Til the morn, Suzanne 611/700
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