Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Photos and Street Sketch
A wee collage of photos from my day. We left the house at 5:40am and four different trains took us all the way to Thurso, with a couple of hours in Inverness to visit Leakey’s. I’m absolutely knackered, and the only art I have managed to do was a very quick sketch of some lovely…
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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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Reverse Process
I painted a lot today, and I was unthrilled with a number of pieces that are either going through an ugly stage, or being designated a hot mess. Some days are like that, and there’s a lot going on in the world that’s difficult to accept, so I’m fine with just painting shite, as long…
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Cool Hues
Another experiment in my newly begun A3 portrait sketchbook. I am not convinced by this palette for the skin tones, but there are a lot of things in the doing that I enjoyed and like. I think I’ll do the same portrait tomorrow on the facing page with a different palette, and compare. Til the…
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New Sketchbook Started
A ten-minute warm-up sketch in my A4 sketchbook to start the day, followed by a portrait with the face showing. Late last night I was thinking about my hands and feet sketchbook, and how much I am enjoying it, and I had the thought that I should start another A3 book just focused on portraits.…
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Skint Knee
Today I pulled out an old tube of Crimson red acrylic that has been in my stash for years, mostly because the lid was absolutely stuck. I have tried a few times to get it open and failed, but today I persevered and eventually managed to get it to budge. I don’t know what was…
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Foot Thing
I spent some time today rearranging a few of my shelves, moving things that I use into more accessible spaces, and less useful things out of the way. I found a few things I had forgotten about, and I should probably do a shelf emptying task once a month just to reacquaint myself with things.…
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More All Fingers and Pose
I returned to this painting today to do some more work on it, correcting some values, and working on the hands. I’m not finished with it yet, but I’m happy with where I got to. Til the morn, Suzanne 573/600
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Marks
One of the spreads in my mark-making sketchbook from the other day. Today’s art I’m not comfortable sharing, which is unusual for me but I’m going to honour that, some things need to cook and develop. Til the morn, Suzanne 572/600
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