Tag: figurative painting
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Mini Figure in Oil
This is a tiny painting. It’s 6×6″ (15x15cm) and I don’t know who thinks these things up (me) but I got half way into this little oil painting and started questioning my life choices. The challenge, and it isn’t even really a challenge, it’s just here is a supply of mini canvas boards to do…
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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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Realism and Abstract Tussling in my Brain
I finished this portrait in my A3 portrait practise sketchbook. I started her yesterday, and I wasn’t really liking the way she was going, but I came back to her today and brought her to a conclusion. A Cassandra for our times. No-one will listen to her. When I moved onto the second canvas, which…
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And Then There Were Three
I worked on things that can’t be posted yet, and also brought this triple set on a bit. Til the morn, Suzanne 673/700
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Extremities I and II
I don’t think a painting is ever finished, but I have called time on these, beaten my deadline by a day, and written up and submitted the forms for their inclusion in the small works section of an annual exhibition. More on that in the new year. Ta da. Also, I am amused by today’s…
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Painting Over Safe
The first thing I noticed when I walked back into the studio last night, and again this morning, was that yesterday’s painting on the canvas looked very safe compared to the three previous versions of the pose. There wasn’t anything wrong with it, it just looked safe. I’ve been trying to get myself painting on…
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Figure on Canvas
I’m supposed to be finishing some 30×30 boards, so obviously I went and did other things instead. I painted this in acrylic on a 16×20″ stretched canvas. I am not sure if I am going to keep the flesh tones like this, or go off on a tangent inspired by yesterday’s oil stick piece. I…
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Oil Sticks Unwrapped
A long time ago I bought what I believe are the original version of oils in stick form, the W&N Oil Bars. I mean it was so long ago I could probably sell them as “vintage art supplies”, definitely last century. I probably used them a couple of times, and they are unlikely to be…
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Crouching
I have been distracted today, but I got this far with this pose and idea. There’s a lot more to do, but the basic shapes are there. This is on 300gsm hot press paper, not my sketchbook, so the paint is doing different things. Til the morn, Suzanne 636/700
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Honing Ms Drips
There was a lot of playing in sketchbooks today, and lots of ideas came out of that, and there will hopefully be further play and exploration going on there. I realised that I had been avoiding this canvas for some reason, no idea why, so I put it up on the easel and pushed and…
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Sole Perspective
This sketchbook started out as a project on practising painting hands, and evolved into hands and feet, and figures with either hands, feet, or both. I was flipping through it today, and it’s so much more than that, because there’s also colour explorations, materials explorations, technique explorations, value, shape, proportions and perspective. I’m noting that…
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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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