Tag: figurative painting
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Day 21 Mini Canvases
This is a collage of almost all my mini canvases for the 100 Day Project. The one of Andrew Windsor is excluded, because that is fitting. There’s another one that was started today along with two of the bottom row, but the sketch was bad, so it got another layer of background colour. It also…
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Blue Blue Blue
Day 16 of the 100 Day Project I was playing in my sketchbook with some value and saturation experiments with a limited palette of cad orange and phthalo blue, and black and white. I had some leftover paint, so I put it to good use on another 6×6″ canvas. I’ve painted this one previously, but…
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Cheated Myself
When I set up the photo for yesterday’s post I had this niggling feeling that something wasn’t quite right, but couldn’t figure out what. Today I was choosing one of the canvases to do some work on and noticed the two cool purple mini canvases sat on a shelf, and I realised they hadn’t been…
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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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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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