Tag: figurative painting
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Arses
Today I have been musing about an argument I once had with a history lecturer about empires. Their argument was that of course empires did not exist anymore, and I used the course-specified definitions of empire to illustrate my argument that this was not true. One of the examples I used to illustrate my argument…
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Handmade Grey
I mixed an interesting blue-grey today. It’s not a payne’s grey, but it’s got a similar feel. I used caput mortuum violet, phthalo blue and van dyke brown for the mix, and white to get some lighter values. This is a horsie I started on a wood panel ages ago with just a rough sketch,…
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Hanging
Aside from oil painting today, I revisited this canvas board and did some reworking of the hands and head. They aren’t the way I want them, yet, but they are closer than they were. I also worked on the shadows, to give a bit of depth. There’s still some work to be done, but it…
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Rules and Play
My 100 Day Project continues. Alla prima painting feels intuitive to me, but it does have some general rules, guidelines, whatever you want to call them, and I am using this project to figure out what those rules mean in terms of how to put the paint down. I mean I know the rules, and…
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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 Hundred Days of Art
A little part of me can’t quite believe that I have done this, kept going and made such a significant change for myself. Another small part of me is still thinking I won’t finish the first thirty days, but here I am three hundred days in surveying the queendom of my inner landscape, and bits…
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Art Interrupted
I started working on this little canvas again today, just blocking in some values, and deciding what I want to do next. Unfortunately the migraine I thought might start yesterday made itself known today, and I’ve had a lovely blurry day. poo. Til the morn, Suzanne 284/300
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Feet
I did not spend a lot of time on art today, but I did bring this little project along a bit. I was hoping to get it finished, but that didn’t happen. I had to laugh tho, because the other day I prepped a bunch of surfaces for painting, and today there’s an artist call…
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