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A small 6×8″ mixed media on 300gsm paper is today’s postcard from the self-care of painting. I hope everyone reading is taking time for a bit of self-care, because the world is a LOT these days. Til the morn, Suzanne 361/400

I went back to this little canvas and did some work on it, and it’s starting to look like more than a sketch. I have a few of these wee 8″ canvases, some are still blank, and some have bits and pieces of ideas. The other canvas I worked on today started out with fluorescent…

I painted the original drookit hare a while back, and I have been playing around with the idea at various points. Today I used a gel plate and charcoal to transfer a scaled version onto six mini canvases. They will be the same, but different, and painted as a batch. I used all six of…

Two pages from today’s sketchbook session. I used my nib pens and Indian Ink for these. Usually I like to scratch around not worrying about making lines that are messy, but this was more about minimal lines. I did overdo the chin a bit, on both, but imperfections are fine. Til the morn, Suzanne 358/400

I had the pleasure of a live model again today, although I didn’t have the budget for getting his claes aff 😁 Jokes aside, I am querying with myself why I haven’t made full use of him before now. He’s quite a good sitter. We did lots of timed poses, mostly full figure poses, and…

I used to enjoy life drawing in times gone by, but most days I don’t have anyone to draw. Today I did, and boy did my brain fire off. It is a very different process than working from reference photos, and that’s good for the grey matter. The first pose was absolutely loaded with foreshortening,…

Sketching with paint. Til the morn, Suzanne 355/400

Lots of painting today. I revisited the limited palette from yesterday, but I added in a yellow for some skin tones. I mixed up a mid tone and then held my palette knife up in front of the painting and recoiled in horror 🙂 I scraped that off my palette and put it on a…

I am experimenting with a limited palette of only ultramarine, unbleached titanium, quinacridone red, and caput mortuum. I am not sure if I like it, I will know in the morning. I already know her arm needs to be fixed. I got a bit carried away with the folds, and didn’t pay attention to where…

I am still avoiding the watercolour on brown paper version, to the point it’s becoming a running joke in this house. I am having fun doing multiple versions of the same reference tho, and today I have sized it up to a 16×20″ canvas. The canvas had a sketch of a figure pose on it,…

I only had ten minutes spare today so I just grabbed my brush and sketched the reference that was sitting on the bench. Some days the art making is about creative adventures and following trails, and on other days it’s about maintaining that tiny gossamer lifeline to hope. I bought a book about painting second…

This is the brown paper coated in white opaque watercolour ground that I prepped a while back. I didn’t sketch first, just painted her onto the surface. It’s an interesting surface to work on. I can see why there are mixed reviews about watercolour ground, because it doesn’t create a surface like watercolour paper, but…