Tag: acrylic painting
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Returning Rook
This canvas has been sitting untouched since January and today I had a thought about where to go next – texture. I would usually have the texture on the substrate before whatever the thing is that’s going to be the Thing, but I had not much more than the sketch and some value blocking, so…
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Sponge Brush Day
Sponge brush figure drawings today. The world is a LOT. Til the morn, Suzanne 723/800
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Disrupt and Think
The other day I made three self-portraits on thin cartridge paper with the intention of playing with and disrupting them. It wasn’t difficult to get into that mode with those drawings at all. I painted this self portrait using the same reference photo, and the idea was to try the same thing but with a…
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Staring Selfie Layers
I made this background yesterday, and today I went with the same selfie that I was playing with yesterday. It’s a photo that is intentionally a bit weird, so the staring is capturing what’s in the photo. I wiped off the neck and shoulders because I didn’t like what was happening, so that’s why it…
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Round and Round
Things got a bit carried away today as my washing machine decided to get stuck in a perpetual cycle and I spent an inordinate amount of time watching the thing going round and round hoping I had managed to coax it into a different cycle that would result in it beeping and letting me open…
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Second Pass Brushy Layers
This one is coming along nicely. I’ve been using one of those cheap, shitty brushes in the largest size to build the layers on this, but I’m not at the stage of bringing in a smaller, but still scratchy and shitty, one for a bit of detail. The palette I’m using is limited to phthalo…
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Brush Stash
The stash of new brushes on the right are to expand my oil painting brush collection, which is kind of a commitment to doing more oil painting. I don’t usually post new supplies pics, but look at the the tiny oil paper block I ordered, it’s so cute! I’m aware that I do things like…
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Raw Sienna Mixing
Today I did some skin tones colour mixing. I do a lot of skin tones mixing, and I don’t think I will ever run out of possible combinations. I quite often use yellow ochre, but today I swapped in raw sienna for a change. The palette: raw sienna, naples yellow, cad red, ultramarine, zinc white…
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Red Net
16×12″ acrylic on 300gsm paper I think he’s finished, but you never know, I might go back in tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 704/800
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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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