Category: Sketchbook Practise
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Handy Live Model
A live model is a luxury, and an entirely different challenge compared to a static reference photo. No matter how brilliant the sitter is, they will move, or the light will move, or the pose they chose will fatigue muscles. It makes the painting choices much more dynamic. It was fun to do, even if…
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Partial Projects
Today we started out with the intention of putting up some narrow shelves to hold in-progress canvases and boards. The idea being that if they are out where I can see them, I remember they exist, and might even work on them. We’ll see how that goes. Unfortunately, with it all planned out, there was…
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Expressive Arms
The question of the day was “do I need to order more Turquoise Green?” The answer may yet end up being Yes, but I do have a host of different versions of blue turquoises, and various yellows, so I went with mixing, not ordering. This delicious mix came from Phthalo Blue Green Shade and Cad…
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Reach
We have no internet, other than via mobile phone. As is typical, the ISP doesn’t think there is an outage, but we have no internet, and if it isn’t an outage, there will be an engineer on Tuesday. Tuesday 😶 No internet, no TV, no printer. It’ll be like the 1970s. Lol. There’s always paint,…
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Maidenless Hands
Another day of meditative hand studies. I seem to have moved into this A3 sketchbook without much resistance, and things are cooking. Til the morn, Suzanne 537/600
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Hand In My Sketchbook
More fun with hands today. I pulled out a bunch of art supplies that I haven’t used in a while, and mixed things up a bit. There’s a chinagraph pencil, a gel pen, woodies, sharpies, watercolour pencils, neocolor IIs. Playing a lot with the supplies, and using swirly gestural marks, and having fun being loose.…
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Hold Your Hand Still
Continuing with the theme of hands in my extremely inexpensive A3 sketchbook, I am mixing up the materials a bit. I pulled out a chinagraph pencil, and did some studies with that. I’m not huge on using erasers even if I’m using graphite, but I very much like things like chinagraph pencils, because all your…
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Handy
Storm Floris was not a pleasant accompaniment to the day, but we appear to have suffered no damage, other than one very upright stem of my very wild rose bush might be broken. I went back to yesterday’s portrait and did some correcting, then hung it with the growing collection of brown paper pieces. When…
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After Ken Currie
A busy, inspiring day today, starting with a trip to Aberdeen Art Gallery. I haven’t visited it for years, and I went to see an exhibition of women artist’s works on paper. That was interesting, and inspiring, but the painting that has stayed with me from wandering all the galleries is the one above. I…
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Sketchbook Spread
It’s fun to distort and elongate legs and shrink heads, but you really don’t have to do that with the pointy dog varieties, they do it all by themselves. The second sketch is a first go at a profile portrait that I haven’t sketched before, finding my way in to the nooks and crannies. Til…
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One Lurcher Lurching
The highlight of the day was a trip to a dog park for a flee about. I did not paint this from life, it was the best photo of the day, taken by Himself. There was no neon yellow paint in my tiny stash, so I improvised. Til the morn, Suzanne 528/600
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Slains Fun
More sketchbook practise on a dining table with art supplies limited to a small travel art kit. Later in the day we visited Slain’s Castle for a wander about. Himself hadn’t been there before, so he went off with his camera, engrossed. I went a different way, and climbed one of the spiral staircases that…
Thrummie Bizzum 