Tag: acrylic painting
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Yaaaaaaas
not my usual subject, a moment worth the paint 🏴⚽️🤸♀️ Til the morn, Suzanne 641/700
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New pose monochrome
I have been wandering about in the woods today, so didn’t get as in-depth with this pose as intended. An acrylic sketchy under-layer finished off with pan pastels. Til the morn, Suzanne 639/700
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Hands and Hands
Painting at a dining table instead of my studio, so embracing the limitations. I’ve left the hands for tomorrow, or another day, because daylight runs out this far north. Til the morn, Suzanne 637/700
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Crouching
I have been distracted today, but I got this far with this pose and idea. There’s a lot more to do, but the basic shapes are there. This is on 300gsm hot press paper, not my sketchbook, so the paint is doing different things. Til the morn, Suzanne 636/700
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Don’t Move
I’m completely smitten with my pan pastels, and I don’t think I have even scratched the surface of their versatility. Here I’m using them over acrylic, and I’m loving how this turned out, especially given it went through a particularly “ugly stage”. Someone was waxing unlyrical about drawing from reference photos recently, and the problem…
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Grasp Too
Following on from yesterday’s study, I used the same reference and changed the palette slightly by swapping the black with ultramarine, and adding pyrrole red. I really like the pyrrole red added to the background, and I like the way both paintings sit together in the spread, which I haven’t taken a photo of, I…
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Grasp
This is the first time I have used tube black in this sketchbook, having been experimenting with chromatic blacks as a side-shoot of this project. It definitely gives a different feel to a piece. I threw some yellow on the page too, because I never use yellow in a very yellow way. I didn’t like…
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Honing Ms Drips
There was a lot of playing in sketchbooks today, and lots of ideas came out of that, and there will hopefully be further play and exploration going on there. I realised that I had been avoiding this canvas for some reason, no idea why, so I put it up on the easel and pushed and…
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Cadmium Orange Fun
Instead of red, I tried a ground using cadmium orange as the starting place for this portrait. I started off with the highlights instead of sketching, and I quite liked the ghostly effect, so I took a snap. I kept going, and ended up here… I might go again with this one, as it’s such…
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Sole Perspective
This sketchbook started out as a project on practising painting hands, and evolved into hands and feet, and figures with either hands, feet, or both. I was flipping through it today, and it’s so much more than that, because there’s also colour explorations, materials explorations, technique explorations, value, shape, proportions and perspective. I’m noting that…
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I love drips
Layers and layers of drips in a variety of media got things a bit out of control, and became a problem to solve. Drying time was long, but I eventually got back in to start pulling the figure back out of the drips. I’m liking the way this one is going. Til the morn, Suzanne…
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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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