Tag: acrylic on canvas
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Testing the Tints
Today without even looking at a canvas that is resting, I figured out what is bugging me about it, and what to do about that. I wrote that all down in the notebook I am trying to turn into a studio diary so the thought doesn’t get lost in all the other thoughts. I carried…
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Party of Four
Back to batching and the collection of canvases in various stages of completion. I worked on these four today, and I enjoyed swapping them back and forth after bringing them on a little, it was a nice change of rhythm after a lot of focus being on one canvas. The bottom right one is probably…
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Finished, for now
I think she is finished, but then again I might go back in to the face a bit more, I will know in the morning. The face wasn’t the interesting part for me, it’s the foot and the hand that I focused on here. I considered leaving the face very minimal and abstract, and I…
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Back and Forth and Forward
I’m still pushing and pulling between the earlier versions and playing with colour. I did come up with a luscious skin tone blend that I’m going to have to make a proper note of, because it’s making me very happy. I am terrible for not making notes and then looking at a painting and have…
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Painting Over Safe
The first thing I noticed when I walked back into the studio last night, and again this morning, was that yesterday’s painting on the canvas looked very safe compared to the three previous versions of the pose. There wasn’t anything wrong with it, it just looked safe. I’ve been trying to get myself painting on…
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Figure on Canvas
I’m supposed to be finishing some 30×30 boards, so obviously I went and did other things instead. I painted this in acrylic on a 16×20″ stretched canvas. I am not sure if I am going to keep the flesh tones like this, or go off on a tangent inspired by yesterday’s oil stick piece. I…
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Sketch on Canvas
I have been looking after my four-legged lodger, but he has gone home, and I gave myself twenty minutes to get some painting done. I have some canvas boards covered in pyrrole red, so I started this painting on one. It’s one of the poses I have been painting recently, but only in the sketchbook.…
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Changed My Mind
I decided not to obliterate the orange (yet) and just kept layering. I added in a bit of mixing with the red and the turquoise, which goes against the original plan, but I like it more. Lots to do, but happier with it than I was yesterday. Til the morn, Suzanne 598/600
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Studio Things and Not Orange
This is on a canvas board, and so far I am mostly happy with it, but I am changing the orange tomorrow, because it’s making me itch. Other things that happened today include opening a box from Jackson’s, yay. There was also the culmination-ish of a palette experiment, a new A4 sketchbook started, and a…
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A Wee Monkey
It’s always a good idea to decided you are going to paint a painting as a gift two days before you’re due to visit the people your intended gift is for. That’s what I did today, and I’m absolutely convinced it will not be finished by Sunday, but you never know. Yesterday I watched a…
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The Vivienne Tribute Portrait
I have a list of people that I am interested in painting, and when I added The Vivienne to that list I did not imagine for one second that I would be painting them following their death. RIP queen, 32 is far too young to have left us. I think I have finished my tribute…
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