Tag: acrylics
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Canine Intervention
My sometimes lodger on canvas. I will try not to fiddle with this any more, because I could so easily lose the likeness. Til the morn, Suzanne 670/700
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30×30 Incoming
As it turns out the judging thingy I was trying not to think about yesterday wasn’t yesterday. The dates are listed in a confusing way, and I’m not quite sure if yesterday was anything at all. Nothing happened, and it looks like the actual date is around the same day I have a self-imposed, sorta,…
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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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Carmine Red Mood
I had a parcel due today, and it was due in a specific timeframe, and so I planned my day accordingly. I am one of those people who just can’t focus if there’s some sort of appointment or happening, but I thought it would be fine because the timeframe was morning. Pfft. The parcel, which…
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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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Charcoal Pastel Gesso
Starting with some warm-up play in a sketchbook on a page that had some acrylic paint from a previous session as a ground, I played with this high-contrast reference and some charcoal powder. Having smudged in some basic shadow areas, I wanted a darker dark, so I mixed the charcoal powder with clear gesso, and…
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Cool Hues
Another experiment in my newly begun A3 portrait sketchbook. I am not convinced by this palette for the skin tones, but there are a lot of things in the doing that I enjoyed and like. I think I’ll do the same portrait tomorrow on the facing page with a different palette, and compare. Til the…
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Eight Times One Face
I am a few weeks behind in keeping up with the Let’s Face It classes. This is fine, you buy the course, you have access to the classes for life, but it is nice to get the community feel of the class group. I’m going to jump back in with whatever class lands on Monday,…
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Space to Dream
An artist I admire posted a photo of her studio on social media the other day, and it was absolutely stappit fu with finished paintings. Colour everywhere, lots of different sizes and substrates. It looked absolutely amazing. I looked at that photo and saw goals – having a body of work that overwhelms my space,…
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It’s Just Paint
I remember when getting the Tories out meant getting the Tories out. It no longer does. They’re wearing a different coloured ribbon, tho, woop woop. I wrote a long political post, and then condensed it down to the above. There you have it. We aren’t headed in a good direction. Anyway, I got a bit…
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Divergent Referencing
I saw a conversation online the other day that I keep thinking about. I wasn’t part of the conversation, I just read it, and then thought a lot about it. Someone had posted a painting they had done using a reference, and they had included the reference, and a bit about how they had interpreted…
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Overthinking
I was really pleased with yesterday’s hare painting, and it gave me lots of ideas, and today I got set up with my timer, which is my new favourite motivator, and then I observed how tight I was. I set up a watercolour block, so better paper than the gessoed cartridge paper that is just…
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