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Month: January 2026

  • Small Canvas Sketch

    Small Canvas Sketch

    I have been looking, but it seems there is no way for me to block nasty little possibly bots who are lurking around this blog, apparently scraping my art for someone else’s benefit. I’m on the inexpensive tier with WordPress, which doesn’t give much in the way of features, and I guess that’s just what…

  • Phthalo Highlights

    Phthalo Highlights

    I think she’s done, but I’ll know in the morning. Oil on oil paper, 16×12″ Til the morn, Suzanne 713/800

  • Looking Left

    Looking Left

    This has come out more blue than turquoise on my phone, but it’s a yummy phthalo turquoise for the background. This is the first layer blocking in values and claiming the page, which is 16×12″ oil paper. I’m experimenting with a limited palette: phthalo turquoise, phthalo blue, burnt sienna, cadmium red and white. It’s an…

  • Drawing Not Painting

    Drawing Not Painting

    I’ve been painting my initial sketch more often than using graphite, so this is a wee change. The lips are going through a bit of a journey, even since I took this photo. I think the model has filler, which is always interesting to try and capture without ending up with a caricature. I’ll do…

  • One Square Hour

    One Square Hour

    I enjoyed this little oil painting more than the previous ones, so it’s the same lesson as always – repetition brings results. I have a lot of resistance around oil painting, and I think a lot of that is noise, because I do really love the open nature of the paint. There’s also no reason…

  • Mini Figure in Oil

    Mini Figure in Oil

    This is a tiny painting. It’s 6×6″ (15x15cm) and I don’t know who thinks these things up (me) but I got half way into this little oil painting and started questioning my life choices. The challenge, and it isn’t even really a challenge, it’s just here is a supply of mini canvas boards to do…

  • Mini Canvas

    Mini Canvas

    I bought a bundle of 6×6″ canvas boards with a view to doing lots of little oil paintings for practise, and then went off in a different direction. Today the pile went down by one. I’m looking at the 55 mini oil portraits I painted last year and wondering who painted them, and also reminding…

  • Practise in Private

    Practise in Private

    Here is an oil painting practise from a few weeks ago to remind myself that I can paint, lol. Sometimes you don’t have to put everything you do online, and after 700 days I think that’s OK. The subject of this portrait was eaten. Til the morn, Suzanne 707/800

  • Down Then Up

    Down Then Up

    My mood from yesterday continued into today, and for some reason I decided to pull out the oil paints and start a portrait. Can I just say that when you are feeling down, painting somewhere in the safe zone might be the tonic you need. In other words, the first stage of today’s painting went…

  • All Sorts of Crap

    All Sorts of Crap

    A very negative mental health day today. Sometimes that happens. I have a long list of things to whine about, some of them are justified, some that need a bit of self-reflection. I was not in the seeing place today, and that shows in this sketch. The win is that I made bad art instead…

  • Red Net

    Red Net

    16×12″ acrylic on 300gsm paper I think he’s finished, but you never know, I might go back in tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 704/800

  • First Pass Portrait

    First Pass Portrait

    There’s a lot to fix, but this is the first pass, and all the paper is claimed, and I am enjoying where it is going. Beards and facial hare are not my favourite thing, but the only way to get better is to get better. I’m using a Zorn palette with cadmium red as the…