Category: Art
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Triptych
I wasn’t thinking about this figure sketch in context with yesterday’s sketch on the left, but they make a nice spread together, so that’s a bonus. My singular favourite shitty brush and I are perhaps coming to the end of this journey, as the bristles are now about half the original length. Poo. For my…
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Poised Crouch
I’m still not in my usual spot, with a small amount of limited supplies. My sketchbook is propped up on a tub of bird food on a dining table, and I really don’t sit to paint much. So of course I chose a complex figure pose, which I started to curse after the first minute,…
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Hairy Beasties
Not in my usual spot today, so sitting painting in my sketchbook instead of standing, and one reference was a living being who wasn’t posed, didn’t know they were being appropriated, and I conclude a more fidgety than I thought. I’ll leave it up to your imagination which one is the living, highly mobile, being.…
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Arses
Today I have been musing about an argument I once had with a history lecturer about empires. Their argument was that of course empires did not exist anymore, and I used the course-specified definitions of empire to illustrate my argument that this was not true. One of the examples I used to illustrate my argument…
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Fineliner Toes
Til the morn, Suzanne 490/500
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New Things and Still Too Hot
Today was hotter than yesterday and the pollen count was high, and I am quite, quite done with it all. The day was not a total downer, tho, as a wee box of new art supplies arrived to cheer me up. I got two more of those chonky Liquitex paint markers in quinacridone crimson and…
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Too Hot
I am struggling with the heat, ugh. Til the morn, Suzanne 488/500
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Side-Eye in Chisel Tip
A length of brown paper cut off the roll and clipped to an A2 board is one of my go-tos this week, and I am falling head over heels for my singular Liquitex chisel point marker. It’s a different way to make marks, and completely out of the comfort zone of scratchy brushes and moveable…
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Handmade Grey
I mixed an interesting blue-grey today. It’s not a payne’s grey, but it’s got a similar feel. I used caput mortuum violet, phthalo blue and van dyke brown for the mix, and white to get some lighter values. This is a horsie I started on a wood panel ages ago with just a rough sketch,…
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Resource Unlocked
Immensely chuffed with myself today for finally doing a small task that has been lingering for far too long. I have a CD-ROM of figure poses, I think there are 1,600 options, that I have been meaning to transfer to my flash drive for months, probably longer. Today I finally performed this really quite simple…
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Turning a blind eye
This is a painting from a painting. It’s actually a painting from a painting from a painting, and today’s version is quite the mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 484/500
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Corvid
Til the morn, Suzanne 483/500
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