Tag: female portrait
-

Me Again
Day 38/100 Back to this selfie for my one hour portrait today. Apparently it looks like me, according to Mither and Himself, and I guess they would know. Himself thinks it’s a bit long in the face, which reminded me of childhood, and being asked “why for the lang face, quine?” I’m still discombobulated from…
-

Four Hundred Days
Day 29 of the 100 Day Project. I tried a different process for laying down the paint today, and although it hasn’t been entirely successful, I liked what I learned. I think the process is perhaps a challenge to complete in a hour, or perhaps more practise will make it easier. I could have painted…
-

Smol Me
I had a battle with procrastination again today, but I eventually got there, around about the time the Noise Men started cleaning up their mess, and looking like they are finished. Yay. I decided on another selfie, and used a palette from a couple of weeks back – yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, caput mortuum, phthalo…
-

Painting From a Sketch
Day 23 Instead of using a photo for reference, I used my Morning Sketch as a reference for this, which was interesting in terms of loosening the internal dialogue. I played around with the oil paints and mixes left on my palette from yesterday, and that lush background colour came from phthalo turquoise and quinacridone…
-

Skeleton Hands Selfie
The Let’s Face It class with Rose Cameron for this week, combined with my 100 Day Project. Rose used a selfie with sunglasses and one hand for her portrait, I met that brief with a slight twist 😉 These glasses are so fun. I bought them ages ago after seeing them on Strictly, and of…
-

Woman With Fringe
All the sketches and paintings and play that danced out of a single reference photo, and across the pages of this blog, are part of the story of this finished painting. I think we get caught up in the presentation of art on social media as being fast, instant, easy, and maybe that’s true for…