Category: Portrait Painting
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Painting Feet But Different
I spent a bit of time rearranging my studio today, partly in response to what happened with this large A1 sheet of paper. I had it flat on the floor to spread gesso, then some acrylic paint, and because I was a little tight for space, I had stepped on the page and got paint…
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Dusting The Oil Pastels Off
I have a box of oil pastels that I never use. One reason for that is the fact they don’t dry, and up until recently I didn’t have fixative specific to oil pastels. That my excuse, and I’m sticking to it. Most of my oil pastels are the fairly ubiquitous inexpensive ones, with a small…
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Things Change
I was a bit discombobulated this morning because my lodger dog arrived. For some reason I thought he would be arriving in the afternoon, and was a bit surprised to get the message he and his humans were arriving the back of eleven. I had time to get a quick art session in before he…
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Reflecting
Two versions of the same reference. For some reason I did the first one in my A4 sketchbook, even though there’s a hand, so it meets the criteria for my A3 sketchbook. The background was already there, from using up paint at some point, and it worked quite well. The second painting is in the…
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Charcoal Pastel Gesso
Starting with some warm-up play in a sketchbook on a page that had some acrylic paint from a previous session as a ground, I played with this high-contrast reference and some charcoal powder. Having smudged in some basic shadow areas, I wanted a darker dark, so I mixed the charcoal powder with clear gesso, and…
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Repeat Until Satisfied
I’m still obsessed with this hand and foot pose, and I’m really enjoying the process. Somewhere in between yesterday’s painting (r) and today’s is where I want to end up. I do like the black I mixed today, I’m going to play with that more tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 587/600
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Hand and Foot Combo
The hand and foot combination that was bugging me before my trip was given a full A3 page, and some large untidy brushes, to try and make sense of it. I definitely got closer to the shapes and placements, so I’m happy with that. Til the morn, Suzanne 586/600
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Home Again
We spent almost all day on trains, and it’s been a surprisingly tiring few days, we are now back in the Kingdom, and as knackered as I am, I really missed painting, so this is a very quick portrait in my A4 book. Good to get a brush in my hand again. sleep tight, Til…
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Comparison Sketchbook Spread
Yesterday (L) compared with today (R). Yesterday I used vermillion, cad yellow, and cobalt blue for my palette, and today I switched the cobalt for ultramarine, so it’s a nice spread for comparing the difference a single colour can make. I inadvertently tested out the difference between two similar brushes, but this was unintentional. I…
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Introvert
I painted quite a bit today, and by the time I was trying to wrap this one up, whatever is going on with my painting arm was rebelling. There are a few bits where I finished up with my non-dominant hand, so that was fun. I was trying out a brush I’ve had sitting around…
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Back Off
I sketched and painted back of the head views today, and then finished up with this one incorporating the back view and the hands theme. A real beezer of complexity, this one, which I made even more difficult for myself with my choice of brush. I used a Daler-Rowney XL Filbert brush, size 50. It’s…
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Folding In On Self
Yesterday’s sketchbook painting with the black gesso ground inspired this one, but instead of using the black gesso I painted layers of red violet and fluorescent magenta, and then used those colours with titanium white to create the lighter values to bring out the figure. I started out limiting myself to using a 2″ wide…
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