Tag: female portrait

  • Me Again

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…