Category: Sketchbook Practise
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All Fingers
Today’s share is a figure with hands in my A3 sketchbook. The page is covered in gesso and I used a different Art Graf supply today, this time a water-soluble crayon. I haven’t done the next stage, sealing with clear gesso on the gel plate, so it will be interesting to see how much this…
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New Muse
Today’s share is from my A3 sketchbook. A while ago I bought some packs of reference photos but I went on a trip and forgot about them, so had never downloaded them until today. I’m happy with my purchase. I started this study using an Artgraf Tailor’s Shape. I haven’t picked it up for ages,…
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Mini Complex Pose
100 Day Project ~ Day 35 There are 37 canvases, I think, and momentum is still going. I’m remembering last year when I was doing the daily oil painting and I got bored, that’s not happening this time. Maybe I find bodies more interesting than faces, or maybe the parameters I set were too limiting.…
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Cool Blues
I haven’t posted my sketchbook explorations for a while, so here’s a page I worked on today. The delicious tangle of toes and shadows is definitely not there, yet, but it’s close. Til the morn, Suzanne 768/800
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Sponge Brush Day
Sponge brush figure drawings today. The world is a LOT. Til the morn, Suzanne 723/800
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Disrupt and Think
The other day I made three self-portraits on thin cartridge paper with the intention of playing with and disrupting them. It wasn’t difficult to get into that mode with those drawings at all. I painted this self portrait using the same reference photo, and the idea was to try the same thing but with a…
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Not Pretty
I really love the way the face ended up almost grotesque. I could have gone in and fixed it, made it pretty, but I prefer the disruption. Til the morn, Suzanne 701/800
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Realism and Abstract Tussling in my Brain
I finished this portrait in my A3 portrait practise sketchbook. I started her yesterday, and I wasn’t really liking the way she was going, but I came back to her today and brought her to a conclusion. A Cassandra for our times. No-one will listen to her. When I moved onto the second canvas, which…
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Getting Going
A dot for every thing I got done today. Well, maybe not quite, but I almost started with art, and once I got over the resistance and got started, I got loads of things done. It was a varied art day, with lots of things started, and I also got loads of non-art things done…
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Happy Hogmanay!
I started the day with ten pages left to fill in this sketchbook, and ended the day with five pages left to fill, and so I’m closer to the end of the book than I thought I was going to be. Happy Hogmanay! Til the morn, Suzanne 683/700
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The In-Between Times
We are in the In-between Times where no-one knows what day it is. Someone asked me “what days is bins?” and I said “Saturday. But I don’t know what that means.” Today was bins, and they were emptied, and still all is not well in the world. I wanted to write “all is well in…
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Ten Minutes is Enough
I paint every day, come rain or Santa. Hope he was good to you, if that’s your thing. Til the morn, Suzanne 677/700
Thrummie Bizzum 