Tag: acrylic painting
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Quinacridone Muse
She’s all fingers and toes, and if the paint was quinacridone rose I could make a poem, but I didn’t think of that, so here she is in quinacridone magenta, which is about as much to die for as this juicy pose. Til the morn, Suzanne 551/600
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Cobalt By Accident
I pulled out the wrong blue and it was on the gel plate palette before I noticed. I ended up liking the mistake, and enjoyed the shadows I got from it. I love a happy accident. Til the morn, Suzanne 549/600
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Cool Moves
This is my first go with this reference, and it was really fun to do. Til the morn, Suzanne 548/600
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Sketching Hares Day
Sketching hares today. Til the morn, Suzanne 547/600
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Storm, Finally
The heatwave finally broke into a massive thunderstorm that went on for ages. There’s cool air tonight, and I am hoping for a good sleep. Til the morn, Suzanne 544/600
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Sketch Anyway
We’re having another heatwave. I hate it. It’s ridiculous. I did not feel like painting or anything at all, to be honest. It was just too hot, even in the room we do manage to keep cooler. In the end I pulled out the jumbo paint markers and did a couple of hand studies on…
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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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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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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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