Category: Art
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Teal Thirst
A dining table art session away from home, followed by some birthday art supplies shopping. I got myself some large brushes, but I won’t be able to use them for a week, because not my carpets. Til the morn, Suzanne 526/600
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Just Paint
Yesterday’s post was ringing in my brain today, and I put a large-ish canvas up on the easel and just started playing. There was some sort of sketch on the canvas, but it wasn’t worth preserving, so I mixed some paint and smeared a ground on, and from there things got a bit interesting. Hares…
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A Wee Monkey
It’s always a good idea to decided you are going to paint a painting as a gift two days before you’re due to visit the people your intended gift is for. That’s what I did today, and I’m absolutely convinced it will not be finished by Sunday, but you never know. Yesterday I watched a…
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Rocking a Challenge
Happy Birthday to me. I received a message related to a planned walk: “Remember that you aren’t eligible to do the XXXXX walk unless you bring your own (tastefully painted) stone.” So I painted the joker’s dog, and we’ll see if they are willing to part with the rock, after all. In case they want…
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Ode to a Doo
This is very much in the formative, ugly stage of whatever it’s going to be, which is very much what could be said about my entire day today. I did not get much sleep, and then when I eventually did get off to sleep, I was rudely awakened by a flippin horny wood pigeon telling…
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Half Hidden
Today’s postcard from the sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 521/600
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Indigo Shapes
Indigo and titanium white three value study. This reference has a very subtle head tilt that I seem to be attracted to in reference photos, and then subconsciously try to straighten things up when I am painting. So much so we know it as the effing David Tennant Tilt in this house 😀 No offense…
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Slow Shadows
I’m enjoying this sketchbook practise of value studies. I used some violet acrylic today, and a #4 filbert brush, which is quite a lot softer than my shitty brushes. I often like to work fast, and this practise is much more about slowing down, and being more decisive with my brushstrokes, and it’s definitely a…
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The highlight on her bum, tho
This one has been resting for a while, and I pulled her up onto the easel today to have a play. The values in her skin tones were pretty bland, and I wanted to try and experiment with the idea of coloured lighting, because that’s what you’d expect from a place with a pole. This…
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My Sad Onion Joy
I acquired a new collectible today, and I am completely in love with it. This wee sketch in my sketchbook doesn’t do it justice, it is the most darling, adorable, sad little onion ceramic lidded pot on the planet. The world is a horrible place, full to the brim with horror, and people telling you…
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Three Value Thirst
Giving my decrepit shitty brush a rest and pulling out a bright #4 for a value study portrait. I used caput mortuum and some titanium white to create three values on the palette, although I didn’t use much of the white in the end, because I decided to use the sketchbook paper as the lighter…
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Swatching Gouache
I’m going through a phase of being a bit reticent about sharing things I’ve been working on. I’m usually not that bothered, and so this is an interesting phase to work through, and ponder what is going on. I found that when I was doing the 100 Day Project (which I stopped after 55 oil…
Thrummie Bizzum 