Category: Portrait Painting
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Charcoal and Texture
I don’t know why I don’t use charcoal more often, because I love using it. It’s especially yummy on my yummy textured piece. I’m using a selfie that I have used before as a reference for this one, and I am leaving it here for the day so I can walk in first thing and…
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Texture Yumminess
I started working on the canvas drill fabric I primed the other day. It’s around 12×16″, so larger than I have been working of late. I taped it to a board and plotted the basic layout in charcoal. The only reason I did this was to have a rough idea where the face is for…
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Happy Accidental Success Day
I was trying out a different way of getting an inkjet print onto a gel plate, and I am still testing the best way to achieve this, although I think I’ve narrowed things down to a successful process, but I need to test it out a few times. That said, I successfully transferred an inkjet…
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Hung Out To Dry
I pulled out every transparent, or potentially transparent, paper I could think of, and put them through the printer. They are all quite thin, so needed to be attached to a carrier paper, so there was some fiddling, and trimming going on. I’ve printed the same image with the same printer settings on all eight…
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Yummy Texture
Today I had a lot of fun making mixed media collage fodder using my gel plates. There’s lots of texture and I upcycled a bunch of used teabags I had been saving, and I’m really happy with the way most of it turned out. I got a nice surprise as the special paper I ordered…
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Sketch and Image Transfer
This was a fun sketch from a lovely reference. I used one of my new Blackwing 602 pencils, which I am developing a crush on, and my chunky Pitt Graphite Crayon, and a tortillon for blending. Later on I was musing about things, in particular revisiting thoughts about using my own photographs either as gel…
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Attitude Girl and Wonky Horse
Today’s twenty minute timed sketch. I don’t think I have quite caught her *look* but I’ll go again with this one as she has an energy that I want to capture. I was quite busy in the studio today, and had a more successful day than most have been recently. I started out with a…
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Pearl Earrings
Twenty minute sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 442/500
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Mark-making and stamp making
I have not been playing very much recently, and I have missed guddling in my supplies, starting several things at once, jumping from sketchbook to sketchbook, and following my intuition. Those are my favourite kind of days. Of course I often get to the end of the session and think “yes but what will I…
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Don’t Draw A Cat
If you’ve set the timer for twenty minutes and there’s a human in the picture, because you’ll forget about the human until there’s four minutes left. I haven’t had a lot of chat recently, since the Supreme Court ruling attacked my trans siblings and their right to exist. Today we have the results of local…
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Timed Sketch
Twenty minute timed sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 439/500
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Six Drookit Hares
I revisited this little project today, making a batch of things that are the same but not the same. Til the morn, Suzanne 438/500
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