Tag: alla prima
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Day 18 in Profile
Day 18 of 100 Days of Alla Prima. This feels much more challenging than last year’s 100 Day Project. I’m also finding the social media element challenging, that definitely creates much more of a tendency to get lost in self-criticism chatter. Til the morn, Suzanne 389/400
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Zorn Palette Play
Day 17 of my 100 Day Project. Today I focused on how I was putting paint down, and trying to be more choosy to avoid ending up with thick paint that I find harder to resolve or correct. I’m trying different things with this project, different brushes, different colour palettes, and so on, and making…
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Day 16 of 100 mini oil portraits
Day 16 Til the morn, Suzanne 387/400
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Know The Feeling
I like to challenge myself. I have sketched this one a few times, but decided it was too complex for a one hour small portrait, and it probably still is, but I enjoyed giving it a go. That’s Day 15 of 100 done. Til the morn, Suzanne 386/400
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Skeleton Hands Selfie
The Let’s Face It class with Rose Cameron for this week, combined with my 100 Day Project. Rose used a selfie with sunglasses and one hand for her portrait, I met that brief with a slight twist 😉 These glasses are so fun. I bought them ages ago after seeing them on Strictly, and of…
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Changed My Brushes
For my 100 Day Project painting today I used the same reference that I used yesterday, but I mixed things up with my choice of brush. Instead of using the nice Long Flat brushes I have been using for these paintings, I pulled out one of my shitty scruffy cheap brushes. These are the type…
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Irritated
Morning timed sketching is so good. The sketches themselves may not always land, but the process and practise has shifted my creativity to a better place. For Day 10 of the 100 Day Project I used the same reference as the sketch, and the same Zorn palette as yesterday. I decided just to use my…
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Selfie Reacts to the News
I had a different reference in mind for my 100 Day Project piece today, but I was not over the moon with the twenty minute sketch I did from it, and decided to try with a selfie instead. I am not sure why I thought the would be more fun than the other image. I…
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Day 8 100 Days of Alla Prima
Day 8 I’m enjoying this more than I was a week ago. Til the morn, Suzanne 379/400
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Good Habits
I am singing the praises of the twenty minute sketch habit today, it really has changed my days for the better. By giving me a set thing to do first thing, I don’t end up overthinking and procrastinating about what I’m going to create, I just get the sketch done and the rest of the…
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Back To It
I got myself a new medium from Gamblin that is solvent free. It’s supposed to be a substitute for Liquin, and it definitely doesn’t smell like Liquin, which stinks, but it’s my first try with it, so I am not sure if I like it. I switched things up today in a couple of other…
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Early Morning Motivation
Today’s big challenge was getting this done before the arrival of a dog. He belongs to my folks, and this is his first sleepover since they adopted him. I didn’t think it was feasible to do timed oil painting with a somewhat high-energy dog, so I got up early and did not procrastinate, and got…
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