Category: 100 Day Project
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Success and Interference
Last night I spent a little time looking at reference photos, and decided on profiles as a theme for this week. I set up a note in my phone designating a reference for each day, and made some other notes about things I’d like to get stuck into if I manage to give myself more…
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Should I Call Her The Markets?
Daily practise is many things, the obvious being improving skills, which includes the skill of being able to let it go more easily when things don’t go to plan. Daily practise starts to yield bodies of work that help with deciding what you like, what you don’t like, and what you want to say with…
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Disembodied
One of the rules for portrait painting is to give your subject a neck and shoulders, and not just have them floating and disembodied. So I broke that rule. Til the morn, Suzanne 414/500
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Changed The Palette
For today’s shenanigans I chose a different palette and carried on with the same selfie I’ve been painting from. It’s very weird to me that my self-portraits are getting more likes over on Bluesky than my other portraits. This adds to the particular vibe that goes along with painting self-portraits. The palette I chose is…
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Dear Body WTF?
Day 40/41 I diverged from my challenge a bit yesterday. I was unable to complete this one, because I was having a bout of perimenopause pain, and couldn’t stand up to paint any more. I finished her today, though, and I’m fairly happy with the way the abstraction turned out. A slightly abstracted selfie that…
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Hanging
Aside from oil painting today, I revisited this canvas board and did some reworking of the hands and head. They aren’t the way I want them, yet, but they are closer than they were. I also worked on the shadows, to give a bit of depth. There’s still some work to be done, but it…
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Upturned
Day 39/100 one hour alla prima oil portrait on 6×8″ paper. This one went OK, but it’s very sunny and warm today, and I am not sure if that affected the way the paint was moving. The sun is still low enough that it is annoying rather than lighting, and I had to shut the…
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Me Again
Day 38/100 Back to this selfie for my one hour portrait today. Apparently it looks like me, according to Mither and Himself, and I guess they would know. Himself thinks it’s a bit long in the face, which reminded me of childhood, and being asked “why for the lang face, quine?” I’m still discombobulated from…
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Lips
I have worked with this reference photo a few times now, and it is all challenging one. There are all sorts of weird corners, and things that just don’t behave like facial features. I think this might be the best attempt yet, and I’m happy with it. I used the Zorn Palette today. I quite…
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Blue Eyes
I had one of those I-don’t-know-what-to-paint days, which led to some epic procrastination, which led to having only half an hour to paint, which led to this portrait. The thing that I did with the irises is good, and I notice that I made them blue, which is unusual for me. I did lay out…
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Unbelievable
Someone explained to me today that art is little more than putting pencil to paper when a client gives instructions on what they require. The person also explained to me that all art in galleries has been commissioned, presumably in the way described above. If ever there was an argument for teaching the Humanities in…
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Pink Highlights
Day 34 I enjoyed painting this one today, and there was a different energy on the go. I hadn’t really clocked I was in a vague dip until today when I wasn’t. I suppose it’s not surprising, given the state of everything. Til the morn, Suzanne 405/500
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