Category: Art
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Home Again
We spent almost all day on trains, and it’s been a surprisingly tiring few days, we are now back in the Kingdom, and as knackered as I am, I really missed painting, so this is a very quick portrait in my A4 book. Good to get a brush in my hand again. sleep tight, Til…
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Ferry Nice Day
A ferry to Stromness, passing the Old Man of Hoy, and a bus to Kirkwall. And back again. I didn’t get in any street sketching, but I did give that hand and foot combo that’s bugging me a couple of gos in the sketchbook, still bugging me. Til the morn, Suzanne 584/600
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Photos and Street Sketch
A wee collage of photos from my day. We left the house at 5:40am and four different trains took us all the way to Thurso, with a couple of hours in Inverness to visit Leakey’s. I’m absolutely knackered, and the only art I have managed to do was a very quick sketch of some lovely…
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Comparison Sketchbook Spread
Yesterday (L) compared with today (R). Yesterday I used vermillion, cad yellow, and cobalt blue for my palette, and today I switched the cobalt for ultramarine, so it’s a nice spread for comparing the difference a single colour can make. I inadvertently tested out the difference between two similar brushes, but this was unintentional. I…
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Introvert
I painted quite a bit today, and by the time I was trying to wrap this one up, whatever is going on with my painting arm was rebelling. There are a few bits where I finished up with my non-dominant hand, so that was fun. I was trying out a brush I’ve had sitting around…
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Back Off
I sketched and painted back of the head views today, and then finished up with this one incorporating the back view and the hands theme. A real beezer of complexity, this one, which I made even more difficult for myself with my choice of brush. I used a Daler-Rowney XL Filbert brush, size 50. It’s…
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Folding In On Self
Yesterday’s sketchbook painting with the black gesso ground inspired this one, but instead of using the black gesso I painted layers of red violet and fluorescent magenta, and then used those colours with titanium white to create the lighter values to bring out the figure. I started out limiting myself to using a 2″ wide…
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Reverse Process
I painted a lot today, and I was unthrilled with a number of pieces that are either going through an ugly stage, or being designated a hot mess. Some days are like that, and there’s a lot going on in the world that’s difficult to accept, so I’m fine with just painting shite, as long…
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Cool Hues
Another experiment in my newly begun A3 portrait sketchbook. I am not convinced by this palette for the skin tones, but there are a lot of things in the doing that I enjoyed and like. I think I’ll do the same portrait tomorrow on the facing page with a different palette, and compare. Til the…
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New Sketchbook Started
A ten-minute warm-up sketch in my A4 sketchbook to start the day, followed by a portrait with the face showing. Late last night I was thinking about my hands and feet sketchbook, and how much I am enjoying it, and I had the thought that I should start another A3 book just focused on portraits.…
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Skint Knee
Today I pulled out an old tube of Crimson red acrylic that has been in my stash for years, mostly because the lid was absolutely stuck. I have tried a few times to get it open and failed, but today I persevered and eventually managed to get it to budge. I don’t know what was…
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Foot Thing
I spent some time today rearranging a few of my shelves, moving things that I use into more accessible spaces, and less useful things out of the way. I found a few things I had forgotten about, and I should probably do a shelf emptying task once a month just to reacquaint myself with things.…
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