Tag: charcoal
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Chaos and Calm
I spent most of today decluttering and spring cleaning my studio. I did a lot of rearranging and organising and I’ve ended up with a lot more floor space, which makes me happy. At one point I didn’t think I would have any time left for making some art, but I managed to get it…
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New Sketchbook Day
Charcoal and gesso on the inside cover of a new sketchbook. It’s technically not a new sketchbook as it has been in my stash for a while. It’s thicker paper than the spiralbound ones, so perhaps a bit more sturdy for the type of layering I tried the other day. Til the morn, Suzanne 820/900
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Quick Poses
Very much enjoying setting my timer for very quick poses this week. This one is worked with an Artgraf tailor’s shape water-soluble crayon and charcoal. Til the morn, Suzanne 817/900
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Fast Charcoal
Today’s share is from the current A3 figure drawing sketchbook. My reaction to figure pose images is interesting, as I find none of the poses as interesting as the ones from Dinoopis, but the bodies themselves are just as fascinating. I definitely need a certain attitude in the model, though. This was a ten minute…
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Mini Complex Pose
100 Day Project ~ Day 35 There are 37 canvases, I think, and momentum is still going. I’m remembering last year when I was doing the daily oil painting and I got bored, that’s not happening this time. Maybe I find bodies more interesting than faces, or maybe the parameters I set were too limiting.…
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Study and Express
I did some more work with the black graphite pencils, and then I made a charcoal sketch with much faster, looser movements, and I like the difference. I bought a small can of “low odour” fixative, because with all the rain we have had there is a backlog of charcoal and pastel works needing fixed.…
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Two Years
Trying something similar to yesterday, and adding in a Conté pencil. I noticed today that yesterday marked precisely two years since I started a 100 Day Project, and then just kept going. Two years of daily art practise is pretty cool. Til the morn, Suzanne 731/800
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Inverness and Toes
Some snaps from our Inverness trip. Today’s art: Charcoal, acrylic ink and medium. Til the morn, Suzanne 730/800
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700 Consecutive Days
Day 700 It’s seven hundred days since I decided to do a hundred day project thinking I might make it to something like two weeks if I was lucky. I had, and still have, a very loose parameter – one art act and blog it. Most days I do more, but the bare minimum is…
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Charcoal and Gesso Fun
Repeating the pose from yesterday, I used a piece of A2 paper that had some layers of figure drawing practise, each one covered with gesso. This makes for a sumptuous textured surface, and another layer of gesso went over the most recent sketch to make a blank page for this drawing. I used the same…
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XL Charcoal XL Paper XL Toes
I was feeling like some big mark-making, so I pulled out one of the XL paper sheets (A1 size) and one of my XL charcoal chunks. They are water-soluble, but I didn’t play with that aspect for this piece, because once it was on the page I liked the way it looked. The only thing…
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Homeward
Travel day today, and I have my four-legged lodger for the night, so a quick turn re-acquainting myself with my studio. Compressed charcoal and clear gesso and marvelling at how strange the easel feels after a week away. Til the morn, Suzanne 642/700
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