Category: Portrait Painting
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Sketchbook Complete
I finished my A4 sketchbook today. I only started it in the last week of March, so that’s quite quick for me. I had no idea what direction this book was going to take when I started it, so it’s interesting to see what happened in there. Til the morn, Suzanne 203/300
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Grey
I had some mars black left from something I was working on, so I mixed in some zinc white to make a non-chalky grey, and then tried some portrait practise with it. I used a different brush instead of my bristly ones, too see what I came up with. I wasn’t a fan of the…
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Ode To Sketchbooks and Fluorescence
Today’s postcard from my studio is a fun little study where I used my face as a reference, but I wasn’t too concerned about likeness. I’ve been doing that in recent days as a way to get the hand moving and the eyes looking without having to fumble about deciding what I’m going to do.…
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Tidying My Studio Room
I spent a good chunk of my creative time rearranging and organising my Studio Room today. I am not sure if I like it yet, but I can only figure that out by working in it. I moved another daylight lamp in, which is going to come into major play as winter continues creeping, and…
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Almost Blank Postcard
I have a LOT of things swirling in my brain today, but none of them are ready for fingertip processing. I painted, tho. Til the morn, Suzanne 194/200
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Unexpected
New art supplies rock, and they rock even more when someone just surprises me with them. The ceramic palette is one of those things I didn’t know I needed until it was handed to me. I love it. I do have a couple of others, but this one is a nice size, and it’s also…
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Ideas a bubbling
Today is an odd day because I have lots of sketches but I don’t want to publish them here as they are ideas for a painting, and I want the idea to continue brewing before I start sharing about it, if that makes sense. My warm-up sketch isn’t part of the project, so I’ll use…
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Pfft
The reference photo for this sketch is a picture of gentle serenity, and I sketched this while a man spent six hours repeatedly mowing the same small, tiny, patch of grass with a petrol lawnmower, so I think I definitely translated my mood into the sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 191/200
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Self Portait
Late last night I got a blast of inspiration and started prepping a canvas for today. I did say yesterday that my six little canvases might end up shunted again soon. I heard someone referring to this as ‘simmering’ and I suppose that’s a nicer way to put it, it’s definitely more constructive than ‘shunted’…
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Blue Woman
This orange background has been sitting in my stash for a short age, and then today I added more stencilling around the edge, and added this sitting figure that I am enjoying just now. She isn’t finished, but I know what I want to do next, and I’ll let that be my starting place tomorrow.…
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Art Graf Kneadable Putty
I spent a lot of time sorting and tidying in my art spaces today, and it’s a good way to get in amongst things and rediscover supplies that haven’t been touched for a while. It’s definitely part of the creative process, because it’s all about setting the scene for intuitive creativity. One thing I came…
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Monday Postcard
I spent some time swatching colours today, and mixing with a limited palette, and I also got stuck in with three gel plates rotating for a bit, but my favourite postcard from today is this sketch. Til the morn, Suzanne 184/200
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