Category: 100 Day Project
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Zorn Palette Play
Day 17 of my 100 Day Project. Today I focused on how I was putting paint down, and trying to be more choosy to avoid ending up with thick paint that I find harder to resolve or correct. I’m trying different things with this project, different brushes, different colour palettes, and so on, and making…
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Day 16 of 100 mini oil portraits
Day 16 Til the morn, Suzanne 387/400
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Know The Feeling
I like to challenge myself. I have sketched this one a few times, but decided it was too complex for a one hour small portrait, and it probably still is, but I enjoyed giving it a go. That’s Day 15 of 100 done. Til the morn, Suzanne 386/400
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Skeleton Hands Selfie
The Let’s Face It class with Rose Cameron for this week, combined with my 100 Day Project. Rose used a selfie with sunglasses and one hand for her portrait, I met that brief with a slight twist 😉 These glasses are so fun. I bought them ages ago after seeing them on Strictly, and of…
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Screams At Fat (paint)
Twenty minute warm-up sketch was a precursor to the feelings I was having doing the one hour portrait for the 100 Day Project. I did not have any sort of plan, and hadn’t even done a warm-up sketch of this reference, I just dived in. I got a little over-zealous with the fat over lean…
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Pouts and Spirals
I had a really good day in the studio today, one of those days where I felt really inspired and productive. I started, as has become habit, with my twenty minute morning sketch, and that went ok. It wasn’t a winner, but that happens. After that I did a little studio storage rearranging, and moved…
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Changed My Brushes
For my 100 Day Project painting today I used the same reference that I used yesterday, but I mixed things up with my choice of brush. Instead of using the nice Long Flat brushes I have been using for these paintings, I pulled out one of my shitty scruffy cheap brushes. These are the type…
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Irritated
Morning timed sketching is so good. The sketches themselves may not always land, but the process and practise has shifted my creativity to a better place. For Day 10 of the 100 Day Project I used the same reference as the sketch, and the same Zorn palette as yesterday. I decided just to use my…
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Selfie Reacts to the News
I had a different reference in mind for my 100 Day Project piece today, but I was not over the moon with the twenty minute sketch I did from it, and decided to try with a selfie instead. I am not sure why I thought the would be more fun than the other image. I…
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Day 8 100 Days of Alla Prima
Day 8 I’m enjoying this more than I was a week ago. Til the morn, Suzanne 379/400
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Paint as everything collapses
I did the bare minimum today – a twenty minute sketch, and my 100 Day Project oil study. Trying to keep up with All The Things. Jeez. Til the morn, Suzanne 378/400
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Good Habits
I am singing the praises of the twenty minute sketch habit today, it really has changed my days for the better. By giving me a set thing to do first thing, I don’t end up overthinking and procrastinating about what I’m going to create, I just get the sketch done and the rest of the…
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