Tag: acrylic painting
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First Pass Portrait
There’s a lot to fix, but this is the first pass, and all the paper is claimed, and I am enjoying where it is going. Beards and facial hare are not my favourite thing, but the only way to get better is to get better. I’m using a Zorn palette with cadmium red as the…
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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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Terms and Conditions
I have been reading the Terms and Conditions of a couple of things I am thinking about submitting work to, and I have thoughts. Now, I have been seeing a few things online about juried shows and competitions, and how, of course, entrants are paying for the thing without much chance of being selected, and…
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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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More Hands
Another varied day in my studio thanks to this idea of trying to do art before everything else. I wasn’t quite as disciplined this morning, but I caught myself and got back on track. I made a concertina sketchbook yesterday, and it’s brilliant. I did some fun play in there, and that got the juices…
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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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Nae Idea
The internet is very much a place where people are expected to know everything, and definitely the “rules” of blogging always include some gubbins about speaking with authority, and I get it, to a certain extent. I have no idea what I’m doing a lot of the time, and I love it. Sometimes, and this…
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Revisiting the Trio
Pulled out the long narrow figure trio again today, amongst other things. This has become an interesting and possibly frustrating challenge. Firstly I didn’t start this as a series, I started it as a single painting. I had no idea I wanted to do a series, i just wanted to see how a figure looked…
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Big Canvas Big Feet
This is the second largest size of canvas I have, and it’s 24×30″. I haven’t decided if it is finished, but it is finished for now, and all painted today. I enjoy the value study element, but I suspect I will come back and do more because I am thinking about skin tones as I…
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Disrupt the Line
I decided to act on an idea that has been brewing, and spent most of my time today prepping canvases with gesso, and then I got some of them to the stage of having a red ground, and I got the first drawing down onto one of them, mostly so I have something more interesting…
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Mute Pink
I pulled this one out again, and started trying to fix what was bothering me about it. The skin tones were too pink, a hazard when you are obsessed with red grounds. I still don’t think I am happy, but I am happier than I was with it, and it was certainly a better experience…
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Crow Redemption
Yesterday two of my paintings were dropped off at a gallery and I finished a large sketchbook which is full with a lot of work I like. I felt good about my practise. Today I pulled out some soft pastels, graphite and charcoal and started working on an intuitive portrait with no reference. I have…
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