Tag: figurative art
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Tiny Toes
oil on canvas board 6×6″ This was a fun pose to translate onto a small 6″ (20cm) square canvas. Toes! Til the morn, Suzanne 715/800
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Small Canvas Sketch
I have been looking, but it seems there is no way for me to block nasty little possibly bots who are lurking around this blog, apparently scraping my art for someone else’s benefit. I’m on the inexpensive tier with WordPress, which doesn’t give much in the way of features, and I guess that’s just what…
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One Square Hour
I enjoyed this little oil painting more than the previous ones, so it’s the same lesson as always – repetition brings results. I have a lot of resistance around oil painting, and I think a lot of that is noise, because I do really love the open nature of the paint. There’s also no reason…
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Not Pretty
I really love the way the face ended up almost grotesque. I could have gone in and fixed it, made it pretty, but I prefer the disruption. Til the morn, Suzanne 701/800
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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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Testing the Tints
Today without even looking at a canvas that is resting, I figured out what is bugging me about it, and what to do about that. I wrote that all down in the notebook I am trying to turn into a studio diary so the thought doesn’t get lost in all the other thoughts. I carried…
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Twisting Twirls
Experimenting with yesterday’s happy accident, and thinking I’m going to keep experimenting with this process. I predict an art supplies purchase coming up, as I only have two colours plus black and white of these pan pastels. I don’t even have a turquoise one. Shocking. Til the morn, Suzanne 630/700
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Clear Gesso Rescue
I started the day doing some fun sketchbook practise abstracting shapes from some landscape photos. This is not my usual practise, and it was a lot of fun. Once I was done there was some leftover paint, so I used it up in my A3 sketchbook to start a background. I was especially taken with…
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Pan Pastels Mixed Media Figure
I have watched a few demonstrations using pan pastels, and I’ve followed a couple of classes, and never really found a way with the medium that feels natural to me. I do really like using them, even though I have this weird conflict with dry mediums because I can’t be arsed with the whole sealing…
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I love drips
Layers and layers of drips in a variety of media got things a bit out of control, and became a problem to solve. Drying time was long, but I eventually got back in to start pulling the figure back out of the drips. I’m liking the way this one is going. Til the morn, Suzanne…
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Sketch on Canvas
I have been looking after my four-legged lodger, but he has gone home, and I gave myself twenty minutes to get some painting done. I have some canvas boards covered in pyrrole red, so I started this painting on one. It’s one of the poses I have been painting recently, but only in the sketchbook.…
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Mirror Distortion
A similar study to yesterday, playing with a limited palette, a mirror, and a mood. This is not a self-portrait, it is just using my face as a reference, but going off on a tangent, playing with distortion, and the weird shadows I was getting from the low slung winter sun outside. I took my…
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