Category: Art
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Looking Down Her Badly Drawn Nose
Struggling with noses today, perhaps it’s because everything got a bit smelly in the world. ugh Til the morn, Suzanne 339/400
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Keep Going
I did not break my streak despite the overbearing sense of doom. Til the morn, Suzanne 338/400
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Quick Draw
We had visitors all day today, so there was very little time for art. I managed a quick play in my junk journal drawing a face with my non-dominant hand in a continuous line. I had enough time to do a few bits with paint, and then the dog visitor arrived. There were humans too,…
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Mixing Blacks
When I am painting I really try to focus on value, and I have mentioned before different ways of analysing values as I am working. My favourite way is using my small rectangle of red perspex to view my painting as I am working. It’s simple, and instant. Once I started focusing on values, and…
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Big Paper Messy Play and Discoveries
This is a very large sheet of paper, so large that it’s really too large for either of my studio benches. It’s from the pack of Snowdon paper I bought with a gift voucher, and I am having a lot of messy fun. There’s acrylic ink, paint, gesso, art markers, collage, some of those punched…
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The Vivienne Tribute Portrait
I have a list of people that I am interested in painting, and when I added The Vivienne to that list I did not imagine for one second that I would be painting them following their death. RIP queen, 32 is far too young to have left us. I think I have finished my tribute…
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Back to the Glam
Resting the portrait was slowly morphing into avoiding the portrait which risks slowly morphing into not finishing the portrait, so I had a quiet word with myself and squeezed some paint on the palette. I have changed the eyes and the jawline, done more work on the lips and nose, and I am much, much…
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Priming Papers
I’m still resting that portrait, not least because I did not sleep well at all last night, for a number of reasons. For today’s creativity I watched this week’s Let’s Face It class with Deanna Strachan-Wilson. I like her process, and I spent a bit of time pondering how to respond to the class in…
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Painting Tools and Collage Fodder
I ended up with only a short amount of time for art today, and I decided I wanted to give my portrait a rest, and have some space from it, before going in to hopefully finish. Instead I did some simple play in my old sketchbook, not really trying to create anything, just moving paint…
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Making Fake Believable
Today was all about the hair, and a few tweaks to the lips and eyes, but I wasn’t in the mood for doing much to the face. I think what’s left to do to the face needs to happen at the end, once all the colours everywhere else are in place. This is a really…
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Refining the Eyes
I spent most of my painting time today on the eyes and lips. They still need some adjusting, but they are getting there. I also blocked in the dress. This is an interesting challenge, not least because I don’t often paint clothes, and this dress is covered in crystals. It’s also a little bit see-through,…
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Drama Queen
This was looking absolutely terrible to me, I mean leaving the room in a flounce considering pouring gesso over it terrible. I’m invested in doing this one well. I came back and mixed a close-to black and used the palette knife to put it on the background, and it immediately looked much better, and I…
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