Tag: figure drawing
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Partial Projects
Today we started out with the intention of putting up some narrow shelves to hold in-progress canvases and boards. The idea being that if they are out where I can see them, I remember they exist, and might even work on them. We’ll see how that goes. Unfortunately, with it all planned out, there was…
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Expressive Arms
The question of the day was “do I need to order more Turquoise Green?” The answer may yet end up being Yes, but I do have a host of different versions of blue turquoises, and various yellows, so I went with mixing, not ordering. This delicious mix came from Phthalo Blue Green Shade and Cad…
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Maidenless Hands
Another day of meditative hand studies. I seem to have moved into this A3 sketchbook without much resistance, and things are cooking. Til the morn, Suzanne 537/600
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Half Hidden
Today’s postcard from the sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 521/600
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Soft Pastel Everywhere
I am having a lot of fun with this one, not least because whatever perimenopause shite is going on with my hip/knee combo seems to be easing, and I’ve been able to stand for longer periods of time. Yay. This is two more sessions from the last time I posted. The first session involved a…
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Chunks and Smears
One of yesterday’s drawings was hilariously bad, but a good smear of gesso over everything but the head made a fresh layer for another go today. I used one of my XL charcoal chunks for some messy, chonky mark-making, and then sprayed it all with water. I can never remember which XL charcoal chunks are…
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Sketch and Go
We returned home today, and I’m glad I painted this first thing before we left, because I’m about as flat-out as she is. Til the morn, Suzanne 497/500
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Triptych
I wasn’t thinking about this figure sketch in context with yesterday’s sketch on the left, but they make a nice spread together, so that’s a bonus. My singular favourite shitty brush and I are perhaps coming to the end of this journey, as the bristles are now about half the original length. Poo. For my…
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Poised Crouch
I’m still not in my usual spot, with a small amount of limited supplies. My sketchbook is propped up on a tub of bird food on a dining table, and I really don’t sit to paint much. So of course I chose a complex figure pose, which I started to curse after the first minute,…
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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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Resource Unlocked
Immensely chuffed with myself today for finally doing a small task that has been lingering for far too long. I have a CD-ROM of figure poses, I think there are 1,600 options, that I have been meaning to transfer to my flash drive for months, probably longer. Today I finally performed this really quite simple…
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