Category: Art
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Second Pass Brushy Layers
This one is coming along nicely. I’ve been using one of those cheap, shitty brushes in the largest size to build the layers on this, but I’m not at the stage of bringing in a smaller, but still scratchy and shitty, one for a bit of detail. The palette I’m using is limited to phthalo…
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Brush Stash
The stash of new brushes on the right are to expand my oil painting brush collection, which is kind of a commitment to doing more oil painting. I don’t usually post new supplies pics, but look at the the tiny oil paper block I ordered, it’s so cute! I’m aware that I do things like…
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Raw Sienna Mixing
Today I did some skin tones colour mixing. I do a lot of skin tones mixing, and I don’t think I will ever run out of possible combinations. I quite often use yellow ochre, but today I swapped in raw sienna for a change. The palette: raw sienna, naples yellow, cad red, ultramarine, zinc white…
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Tiny Toes
oil on canvas board 6×6″ This was a fun pose to translate onto a small 6″ (20cm) square canvas. Toes! Til the morn, Suzanne 715/800
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Small Canvas Sketch
I have been looking, but it seems there is no way for me to block nasty little possibly bots who are lurking around this blog, apparently scraping my art for someone else’s benefit. I’m on the inexpensive tier with WordPress, which doesn’t give much in the way of features, and I guess that’s just what…
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Phthalo Highlights
I think she’s done, but I’ll know in the morning. Oil on oil paper, 16×12″ Til the morn, Suzanne 713/800
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Looking Left
This has come out more blue than turquoise on my phone, but it’s a yummy phthalo turquoise for the background. This is the first layer blocking in values and claiming the page, which is 16×12″ oil paper. I’m experimenting with a limited palette: phthalo turquoise, phthalo blue, burnt sienna, cadmium red and white. It’s an…
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Drawing Not Painting
I’ve been painting my initial sketch more often than using graphite, so this is a wee change. The lips are going through a bit of a journey, even since I took this photo. I think the model has filler, which is always interesting to try and capture without ending up with a caricature. I’ll do…
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One Square Hour
I enjoyed this little oil painting more than the previous ones, so it’s the same lesson as always – repetition brings results. I have a lot of resistance around oil painting, and I think a lot of that is noise, because I do really love the open nature of the paint. There’s also no reason…
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Mini Figure in Oil
This is a tiny painting. It’s 6×6″ (15x15cm) and I don’t know who thinks these things up (me) but I got half way into this little oil painting and started questioning my life choices. The challenge, and it isn’t even really a challenge, it’s just here is a supply of mini canvas boards to do…
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Mini Canvas
I bought a bundle of 6×6″ canvas boards with a view to doing lots of little oil paintings for practise, and then went off in a different direction. Today the pile went down by one. I’m looking at the 55 mini oil portraits I painted last year and wondering who painted them, and also reminding…
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Practise in Private
Here is an oil painting practise from a few weeks ago to remind myself that I can paint, lol. Sometimes you don’t have to put everything you do online, and after 700 days I think that’s OK. The subject of this portrait was eaten. Til the morn, Suzanne 707/800
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