Category: Portrait Painting
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Nearly There
This one is almost, almost finished. Just a couple of tiny adjustments that I am noticing in the photo. The pair to this canvas is needing a bit more work, so I am aiming to finish both tomorrow, which will be a day ahead of the deadline I set myself. Clever me. I suspect the…
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Art Interrupted
Today’s plan went out the window. I was happily bobbing along, working to plan, when I got a message that the vintage bookcase we bought at the weekend was going to be delivered. It was bought, paid for, and labelled Sold, but we weren’t expecting them to deliver for a while because they usually wait…
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Dragging Myself to the Finish Line
I am within touching distance of the finish line with this one, and the painting that is its pair. I’m really hoping I can get the finger out tomorrow and resolve both of them. Ran out of daylight again for the photo, but that’s life here in Scotland in December. Til the morn, Suzanne 663/700
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Art Therapy
Some days you just need a large piece of paper, some Derwent XL blocks, gesso and a lot of big, gestural movements. “Civilasational erasure” indeed. Pfffft. Til the morn, Suzanne 662/700
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New Pose Workings
Tried out a new pose in my A3 sketchbook, and then I tried doing some small graphite sketches of the same pose, and I was not amused. I just really did not want to draw that small. I put one of the 20x60cm canvases on the easel and started roughly sketching a second standing pose…
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All Fingers and Toes
I spent a lot of time colour mixing today, and making notes in my sketchbook, and then I worked on these two, and I think they are working well as a pair. I have been looking for another image to use for a third, but haven’t decided on that yet. I have chosen the other…
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30×30 Incoming
As it turns out the judging thingy I was trying not to think about yesterday wasn’t yesterday. The dates are listed in a confusing way, and I’m not quite sure if yesterday was anything at all. Nothing happened, and it looks like the actual date is around the same day I have a self-imposed, sorta,…
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Paint Through It
This sketchbook page is all about practising looking, seeing and translating the shapes and values on the page. It’s about working with a limited palette to help me decide whether I want to use it on a canvas. It’s about being loose with an untidy brush. It’s about trying out a pose to see if…
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Embracing the Ugly Stage
We’re going through an ugly stage, and that’s not a terrible thing, the hands are complex in this one, so I’m pushing and pulling. I did browse the stretcher bars on Jackson’s, and I don’t think I’ll be building my own canvases just now. I did figure out where I got these three canvases, and…
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Limited Surface
These long narrow canvases have caught my attention, naturally since I am supposed to be focusing on the 12×12″ ones. I painted the sketch of the dancer on one the other day, and played with how much I could leave off the edge. With this figure I decided to work on fitting the whole figure…
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December Already
Batching the 12×12″ canvases today, and I played around with the colours on this one. In my sketchbook the painting that inspired this one was a very limited palette, and I have extended the palette a little, which I am starting to enjoy. I really like the version in the sketchbook, but this one looks…
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Testing the Tints
Today without even looking at a canvas that is resting, I figured out what is bugging me about it, and what to do about that. I wrote that all down in the notebook I am trying to turn into a studio diary so the thought doesn’t get lost in all the other thoughts. I carried…
Thrummie Bizzum 