Category: Portrait Painting
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Second Pass Colour Play
I continued playing with this little painting, adding some colour in a very limited palette, and using fluorescent magenta as the mother colour. Til the morn, Suzanne 242/300
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Happy Accident
I’m not feeling wordy today, or perhaps it’s more that if I start, I won’t stop. This is a painting I started today, and I love the happy accident of the daisy in the eye. Til the morn, Suzanne 241/300
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Showgirl
I did some figure drawing practise today, and I quite like the way this sketch turned out. I was using a larger brush than usual, which made some of the details quite challenging, but that’s the fun of it. Til the morn, Suzanne 238/300
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Comfort Zone
Having a weird migraine day, but managed to motivate myself to do a portrait sketch in my A4 sketchbook. I used my caput mortuum acrylic mix, one of my scratchy brushes, and the background is a gel print using cadmium red light. Til the morn, Suzanne 236/300
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Turquoise and Mars Red Oxide
It occurred to me yesterday that since I finished the last A4 sketchbook, I have lost a little bit of momentum, and the new A4 sketchbook and I are not having the same relationship as the old one. I don’t know if that makes sense. It probably doesn’t, I mean they are essentially the same…
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Resistance Every Day
I show up here every day, even if I only have a teeny tiny piece of art that is the sole creative output of my day. I show up because once I have been here and posted ‘this is what I made today’ I know that I have beaten fitever wur cauin the deil the…
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Decompress
I spent a little time on an intriguing Let’s Face It class today, as well as some play with gel plates. I’m having that post-social need to regenerate thing, alongside feeling extremely creeped out at how silent some folk are being about the ongoing genocide that is now extended to another country. The privilege I…
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Deconstruction and Integration
A large piece of brown packing paper has been annoying me for days, perhaps longer. I saved it to paint on later, then slotted it into a place where it just kept getting in the way. Today I tore it up, and put it back together to make painting surfaces. Deconstruction and integration. I used…
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Another Three Hour Portrait
I have been quite comfy in my practise without even realising how comfy I have been, so these challenges I have set myself this week have really bounced me out of that. Sketching with a single colour of paint is obviously very different from producing a portrait that is resolved, mixing skin tones, and using…
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Three Hour Portrait
I have been watching old episodes of the Portrait Artist of the Year series, and marvelling at the artists who take part. I decided to see what it’s like to start and finish a portrait in four hours. Obviously I don’t have a live sitter, nor did I have people all around me, and conversations,…
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Reaching
I didn’t have much time today, but I did manage a couple of figure studies. The first is on the right of the spread, and my reference was on my phone, which made it difficult to assess the shadows. I wasn’t trying to stick closely to the reference, anyway, because I wanted to round her…
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Forgot How To Draw
I started a new sketchbook today, although there is one spread in there from June, but other than that it hasn’t been touched. It was interesting observing my thought process around a fresh, new book. It’s essentially the same book – an A4 casebound sketchbook. It’s another pretty inexpensive one, although the other one was…
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