Category: Portrait Painting
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Apologies
My apologies, I think I have been too kind. The whole time I was painting this I was asking myself ‘what is the colour for this skin tone? what is the colour of a dying patriarchy?’ 6×6″ canvas board, acrylic 100 Day Project Day 2 Til the morn, Suzanne 737/800
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Returning Rook
This canvas has been sitting untouched since January and today I had a thought about where to go next – texture. I would usually have the texture on the substrate before whatever the thing is that’s going to be the Thing, but I had not much more than the sketch and some value blocking, so…
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Study and Express
I did some more work with the black graphite pencils, and then I made a charcoal sketch with much faster, looser movements, and I like the difference. I bought a small can of “low odour” fixative, because with all the rain we have had there is a backlog of charcoal and pastel works needing fixed.…
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Black Graphite Testing
I bought myself a set of the Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black pencils. I’ve been eyeing them for a while. I am sold on anything that suggests it is the blackest black pencil you know, so let’s see how this goes. This is on A2 cartridge paper, so it’s not small, and it’s not finished. I…
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Two Years
Trying something similar to yesterday, and adding in a Conté pencil. I noticed today that yesterday marked precisely two years since I started a 100 Day Project, and then just kept going. Two years of daily art practise is pretty cool. Til the morn, Suzanne 731/800
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Inverness and Toes
Some snaps from our Inverness trip. Today’s art: Charcoal, acrylic ink and medium. Til the morn, Suzanne 730/800
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How To Art and things
Over the past few evenings I read How To Art by Kate Bryan. I have been trying a new evening routine whereby I do not take my phone to bed, and instead I read. This tiny change has already improved my wellbeing. I had to buy an alarm clock, because I have for years been…
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Sponge Brush Day
Sponge brush figure drawings today. The world is a LOT. Til the morn, Suzanne 723/800
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Disrupt and Think
The other day I made three self-portraits on thin cartridge paper with the intention of playing with and disrupting them. It wasn’t difficult to get into that mode with those drawings at all. I painted this self portrait using the same reference photo, and the idea was to try the same thing but with a…
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Staring Selfie Layers
I made this background yesterday, and today I went with the same selfie that I was playing with yesterday. It’s a photo that is intentionally a bit weird, so the staring is capturing what’s in the photo. I wiped off the neck and shoulders because I didn’t like what was happening, so that’s why it…
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Disrupt Me
Playing with disruption and self portraiture today. I set up three sheets of A2 cartridge paper and took a photo of my face and used that as a reference. The idea isn’t to chase a likeness, it’s to experiment with disrupting the face and seeing what happens, and what I like and what I do.…
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Round and Round
Things got a bit carried away today as my washing machine decided to get stuck in a perpetual cycle and I spent an inordinate amount of time watching the thing going round and round hoping I had managed to coax it into a different cycle that would result in it beeping and letting me open…
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