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  • All Together

    All Together

    Day 29 of 100 Day Project There are 28 mini canvases here, and the other one that I don’t include with the figures, because it doesn’t fit, so I’m still keeping up with the one canvas for every day. That isn’t how they’ve come together, sometimes I sketch on a couple, then work them on…

  • Ugh

    Ugh

    Day 28 This was another one that only had the sketch on the board, and I’ve given it a first layer today. Funny how the pose reflects how I’m feeling today. I got called some awful things today for liking a post calling for better provision of mental health care, this in the context of…

  • Big Gel Joy

    Big Gel Joy

    It’s Day 27 of the 100 Day Project, and I have 29 mini canvases with paint on. Today I pulled this one from the pile to bring it on a bit from the very scratchy sketch that was there. I started building the values and it’s looking a lot better than it was. I’ve also…

  • Keep Going

    Keep Going

    I’ve lost count of the days with the 100 Day Project, but wherever I am with it, it’s continuing as a daily practice. This one is a basic Zorn palette that needs more work, but the studio got annoyingly hot today, and it’s only March. I unpacked my new gel plate and it turns out…

  • Testing Ideas

    Testing Ideas

    An experiment in progress, that may look like a failure, but I haven’t finished, yet, so we’ll see. I’m enamoured with the image transfer process of charcoal and pastel drawings using a gel plate, so I have tried it out with pan pastels. These adhere to the paper in a different way to soft pastels…

  • Stacked

    Stacked

    This was a real puzzle to figure out, and I could probably come back for a few tweaks here and there, but everything is just about where it should be. Playing with quinacridone red and viridian today. Viridian is such an interesting colour. By itself I am not a big fan, but its fun to…

  • Blue Monday

    Blue Monday

    100 Day Project #23 6×6″ acrylic on canvas I pulled out a tube of manganese blue today. It’s such a beautiful colour, and I haven’t used it for ages. I put it together with quinacridone magenta. I’m amused by the phone pic, which seems to have emphasised the shadow under the arm to make it…

  • Ghost Layer

    Ghost Layer

    Day 22 of 100 mini canvases. I painted today’s mini figure over the rejected board from yesterday, and I really like this one. I also liked the ghost of part of yesterday’s bad sketch, so I chose to leave that in. Til the morn, Suzanne 757/800

  • Day 21 Mini Canvases

    Day 21 Mini Canvases

    This is a collage of almost all my mini canvases for the 100 Day Project. The one of Andrew Windsor is excluded, because that is fitting. There’s another one that was started today along with two of the bottom row, but the sketch was bad, so it got another layer of background colour. It also…

  • More Layers

    More Layers

    The texture from the layers of clear gesso is interesting, and it gives a good ground for finishing this one up with Conté pencils. I say finishing this one, but I used workable fixative to fix it, and I get extra points for using fixative to fix a drawing on the same day I did…

  • Gel Plate and Conté Pencils

    Gel Plate and Conté Pencils

    Today’s 100 Day Project mini canvas has gone on a wee side quest. It occurred to me that I have a gel plate the same size as the canvas boards, and the combination is turning out to be a boat floater. I love using gesso and mediums with charcoal and pastels, not least because the…

  • Legs

    Legs

    This is another mini canvas for the 100 Day project, using up paint from a colour mixing session where I was mixing with cad red and phthalo green plus black and white. Til the morn, Suzanne 753/800