Tag: alla prima
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Upturned
Day 39/100 one hour alla prima oil portrait on 6×8″ paper. This one went OK, but it’s very sunny and warm today, and I am not sure if that affected the way the paint was moving. The sun is still low enough that it is annoying rather than lighting, and I had to shut the…
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Me Again
Day 38/100 Back to this selfie for my one hour portrait today. Apparently it looks like me, according to Mither and Himself, and I guess they would know. Himself thinks it’s a bit long in the face, which reminded me of childhood, and being asked “why for the lang face, quine?” I’m still discombobulated from…
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Lips
I have worked with this reference photo a few times now, and it is all challenging one. There are all sorts of weird corners, and things that just don’t behave like facial features. I think this might be the best attempt yet, and I’m happy with it. I used the Zorn Palette today. I quite…
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Pink Highlights
Day 34 I enjoyed painting this one today, and there was a different energy on the go. I hadn’t really clocked I was in a vague dip until today when I wasn’t. I suppose it’s not surprising, given the state of everything. Til the morn, Suzanne 405/500
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Duck Face
I have posted most of my morning sketches, but it’s a practise I am enjoying. I confess they are not always a morning sketch, but they are always the first art that I do. They are a great way to warm up and get the synapses sparking. I have come to a few conclusions today,…
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Do It Anyway
I was pushed for time today, and this was done in thirty minutes. I need more time. Til the morn, Suzanne 403/500
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Four Hundred Days
Day 29 of the 100 Day Project. I tried a different process for laying down the paint today, and although it hasn’t been entirely successful, I liked what I learned. I think the process is perhaps a challenge to complete in a hour, or perhaps more practise will make it easier. I could have painted…
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The Eyes Don’t Have It
Day 28 The 100 Day Project A choice between not painting, and not reaching a 400 day streak of daily art tomorrow, or doing a fast and wonky effort. I chose fast and wonky and my streak. You win some, you lose some, that’s art. If there’s one thing I have learned over the past…
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Smol Me
I had a battle with procrastination again today, but I eventually got there, around about the time the Noise Men started cleaning up their mess, and looking like they are finished. Yay. I decided on another selfie, and used a palette from a couple of weeks back – yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, caput mortuum, phthalo…
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A Day
Day 26 of 100 Another from a selfie while having hot flashes and dealing with someone pumping music into my house from their van. This is not usual for our street, and it’s quite stressful. I usually do these 100 Day Project pieces in an hour, I gave up after 40 minutes because I was…
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Selfies
I spent a short age trying to choose a reference, but nothing was speaking to me, so I found some selfies I had taken a while back where I was messing with different expressions but hadn’t tried painting them. The Morning Sketch looks nothing like the photo, but I was enjoying the interpretation so much…
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Painting From a Sketch
Day 23 Instead of using a photo for reference, I used my Morning Sketch as a reference for this, which was interesting in terms of loosening the internal dialogue. I played around with the oil paints and mixes left on my palette from yesterday, and that lush background colour came from phthalo turquoise and quinacridone…
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