Tag: daily art
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Subtle Underpainting
I had a very productive and varied day in the studio today, and feel very accomplished. Yay. I started with my habit-in-development, a timed twenty minute sketch. It wasn’t particularly good, but the sketchbook is filling up. Next up I prepped seven 6×8″ sheets ready to begin the 100 Day Challenge tomorrow. I decided having…
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Quatro
Mini portrait umber four is complete. This is for Week 4 of Let’s Face It with Laurie Johnson. Model & Photographer: Sasha Sears Source: Museum/SKTCHY app I’m in catch-up mode with the classes at the moment, but I’m not stressing about it. I’m painting every day, and that’s what I’m focused on. I really enjoyed…
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Nasally Challenged
This is a very challenging reference, and I feel I am going to have her on my table for a while, working away until I master the nose. The head tilt and the hair makes what’s happening around the nose and hidden eye very difficult to translate. I started out with a twenty minute sketch,…
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Closed Eyes Pouting
I rocked the day today. I am trying out a new app that is recommended for overcoming neurospicy Things. It’s called Habitica, and I am liking it a lot. Of course it’s a very neurospicy thing to start a new Thing and rock the first day or even ten, so I’ll see how it goes.…
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Timed Portrait Exercises
The timed sketch to start the day happened again. Since I had prepped some paper for a mini paintings exercise, I decided to use the first reference as my reference for the drawing. I gave myself twenty minutes. The painting is on 12×16″ watercolour paper that has been prepped for oil painting, and divided into…
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One Hour Oil Painting
I tried something a little different today. In fact I tried quite a lot of things a little different today. I have been in a half-slump lately, and it doesn’t manifest every day, but often I find myself struggling to start, and one of the themes is “I don’t know what I want to paint”.…
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Three Six Five
Today is day 365 of daily art plus a blog post. A whole year of showing up for myself, making art, and posting a blog about it as a way of being accountable, and easily countable, to myself. It started out as a 100 Day Project, and became a habit, and it is the best…
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Mish Mash
Insomnia and the delights of perimenopause meant I did not get to sleep until after 4am. I did not get into the studio until after 3pm, which was way too late to start painting with oils, so today’s plan went out the window. I really don’t have much to show for today – sketchbook scribbles,…
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Prepping and Collage
The other thing I worked on today isn’t looking very interesting for a photo so far, but it is going well. I’m trying out Jackson’s Oil Paper, which comes in a gummed block. I started out by priming the top sheet with matt medium, then a couple of coats of gesso. By the time all…
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Playing with this again
I went back to this today, and did some more work. The face tones are different from the shoulder and hand, and I now need to decide which one to retain. I’m having fun with it, tho. Til the morn, Suzanne 362/400
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Mini Painting
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
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Small Shapes
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…
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