Tag: figurative art
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Fourteen Days
It’s International Women’s Day and fuck the patriarchy, which includes the disgusting colonial project currently evaporating women and children in Southwest Asia. It’s also Day 14 of the 100 Day Project, and I have actually managed to paint fourteen canvases, which equates to one per day, but that’s not exactly how it has happened. None…
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Fitting It All In
I decided not to completely obliterate the early scratchings of this one, and just added more layers, and it is looking a lot better than yesterday. It’s weird being back in the studio after nine days with only a corner of someone else’s dining table. It’s almost like starting at the beginning again. I got…
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Mini WIPs
The 100 Day Project day 3 I have four mini canvases painted, one finished (yesterday’s Andrew Windsor leaving police custody study) and three WIPs. I am enjoying working with the idea of creating a bunch of WIPs that can be stored up for finishing, this might work well for times when I’m away from the…
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Day 1 Again
I paint every day, and blog about it, and the content belongs to me, not a billionaire tech bro with dodgy politics. The first thing I noticed when I went to my studio today was this overbearing “this is for Instagram it has to be good” thinking. This is not usually something I deal with…
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Preparing for a new challenge
I spent some more time with this canvas today, pushing and pulling and sometimes immediately spraying water and wiping paint away. I get to the point that it’s good enough for me, which is all that it’s about really. I’m reminding myself of that as I’m embarking on the 100 Day Project and planning on…
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Returning Rook
This canvas has been sitting untouched since January and today I had a thought about where to go next – texture. I would usually have the texture on the substrate before whatever the thing is that’s going to be the Thing, but I had not much more than the sketch and some value blocking, so…
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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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Black Graphite Testing
I bought myself a set of the Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black pencils. I’ve been eyeing them for a while. I am sold on anything that suggests it is the blackest black pencil you know, so let’s see how this goes. This is on A2 cartridge paper, so it’s not small, and it’s not finished. I…
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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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Sponge Brush Day
Sponge brush figure drawings today. The world is a LOT. Til the morn, Suzanne 723/800
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Raw Sienna Mixing
Today I did some skin tones colour mixing. I do a lot of skin tones mixing, and I don’t think I will ever run out of possible combinations. I quite often use yellow ochre, but today I swapped in raw sienna for a change. The palette: raw sienna, naples yellow, cad red, ultramarine, zinc white…
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