Category: Portrait Painting

  • Dour Mood

    Dour Mood

    Til the morn, Suzanne 179/200

  • RIP

    RIP

    The northern lights came last night, and I felt that was a sign that my dear, sweet Murphy’s time was close. My parents messaged me to say he’s had a bad day yesterday, and they didn’t think he was there anymore, so when the aurora showed, it felt like a message. He will be going…

  • Sunday Splash

    Sunday Splash

    I love watercolours. I hate watercolours. I love watercolours. I don’t know how to use watercolours. I know how to use watercolours, I just don’t practise. I have a Let’s Face It class from months ago that is haunting me. I really want to nail it, but it is just not happening. The artist is…

  • Critic Versus Paintbrush

    Critic Versus Paintbrush

    The remnants of my recent migraine were crawling around my brain today, combined with not enough sleep brought on by staying up too late last night watching art YouTube and wondering if I am going to go on the rollercoaster that is the learning curve of making vlogs. I’m not sure if it’s me, really.…

  • Monday

    Monday

    I just wasn’t feeling it today at all. It’s not surprising, and I am not going to be hard on myself, because the world is overwhelming just now for those of us who are paying attention. I did do art, even though I just couldn’t settle down to anything, but it felt like a desperate…

  • Sunday Sketch

    Sunday Sketch

    Interesting that my interpretation comes out looking much more stern than the vulnerability and softness of the reference, but then I have been watching footage of white supremacists setting fire to a hotel with human beings they trapped inside, and it was in England, not Gaza. So that’s all I have today. Til the morn,…

  • World Gone Mad Do Art

    World Gone Mad Do Art

    I had a really good day in my studio room today, a really fun day, despite everything going on out there. One of the things I did was revisit this drawing from earlier in the year. I love this reference, and I love my drawing, and I have never felt the urge to revisit this…