Tag: artist blog
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Sole Perspective
This sketchbook started out as a project on practising painting hands, and evolved into hands and feet, and figures with either hands, feet, or both. I was flipping through it today, and it’s so much more than that, because there’s also colour explorations, materials explorations, technique explorations, value, shape, proportions and perspective. I’m noting that…
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Pan Pastels Mixed Media Figure
I have watched a few demonstrations using pan pastels, and I’ve followed a couple of classes, and never really found a way with the medium that feels natural to me. I do really like using them, even though I have this weird conflict with dry mediums because I can’t be arsed with the whole sealing…
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A change but still red
Compressed charcoal and soft pastels for a change. Til the morn, Suzanne 625/700
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I love drips
Layers and layers of drips in a variety of media got things a bit out of control, and became a problem to solve. Drying time was long, but I eventually got back in to start pulling the figure back out of the drips. I’m liking the way this one is going. Til the morn, Suzanne…
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Sketch on Canvas
I have been looking after my four-legged lodger, but he has gone home, and I gave myself twenty minutes to get some painting done. I have some canvas boards covered in pyrrole red, so I started this painting on one. It’s one of the poses I have been painting recently, but only in the sketchbook.…
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Feet Posed
I didn’t have much time for painting today because I had visitors, and they left behind a four-legged lodger who simply must get bosies. I did have time for a quick study of some feet. Have a blessed Samhain. Til the morn, Suzanne 622/700
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Red Grounds Rule and things
This is a really fun, complex pose that really forces me to look at shapes and shadows, instead of trying to draw/paint a human. This is at the blocking-in stage, just using a larger brush make gestural marks to get the basic framework. In the process I decided that I definitely don’t like a certain…
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Art All Day Yay
I had a full-on art day today, just hours and hours of pottering and creating. I started out with a figure sketch in my A3 hands and feet sketchbook. I got the basics down, and then I had a Zoom session doing short, timed studies of landscapes with Orla Stevens. I am not much practised…
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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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Fingers and Toes Again
I have run out of pyrrole red, but there’s more en-route 😉 I did have enough for this painting in my A3 sketchbook. I did a few other bits and pieces today, but this is my favourite. I’ve painted a version of this pose previously in a more muted palette. Til the morn, Suzanne 618/700
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Get It On Paper
The clocks changed overnight, and we reverted to GMT for the winter, and I am discombobulated, naturally. I had an idea, and this sketchbook page is the start of working out the idea. It’s definitely not a finished and resolved page, it’s just scratching an idea onto a page for later – what sketchbooks are…
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Mirror Distortion
A similar study to yesterday, playing with a limited palette, a mirror, and a mood. This is not a self-portrait, it is just using my face as a reference, but going off on a tangent, playing with distortion, and the weird shadows I was getting from the low slung winter sun outside. I took my…
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