Tag: figure drawing
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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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Nae Idea
The internet is very much a place where people are expected to know everything, and definitely the “rules” of blogging always include some gubbins about speaking with authority, and I get it, to a certain extent. I have no idea what I’m doing a lot of the time, and I love it. Sometimes, and this…
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Revisiting the Trio
Pulled out the long narrow figure trio again today, amongst other things. This has become an interesting and possibly frustrating challenge. Firstly I didn’t start this as a series, I started it as a single painting. I had no idea I wanted to do a series, i just wanted to see how a figure looked…
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Big Canvas Big Feet
This is the second largest size of canvas I have, and it’s 24×30″. I haven’t decided if it is finished, but it is finished for now, and all painted today. I enjoy the value study element, but I suspect I will come back and do more because I am thinking about skin tones as I…
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Disrupt the Line
I decided to act on an idea that has been brewing, and spent most of my time today prepping canvases with gesso, and then I got some of them to the stage of having a red ground, and I got the first drawing down onto one of them, mostly so I have something more interesting…
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Mute Pink
I pulled this one out again, and started trying to fix what was bothering me about it. The skin tones were too pink, a hazard when you are obsessed with red grounds. I still don’t think I am happy, but I am happier than I was with it, and it was certainly a better experience…
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Happy Hogmanay!
I started the day with ten pages left to fill in this sketchbook, and ended the day with five pages left to fill, and so I’m closer to the end of the book than I thought I was going to be. Happy Hogmanay! Til the morn, Suzanne 683/700
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Peachy.Keen
It’s a bit of a rubbish photo because my replacement daylight bulb didn’t arrive and this is Scotland in December so there’s barely any daylight at all. It was painted not quite by candlelight, but at least it was painted. Til the morn, Suzanne 681/700
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The In-Between Times
We are in the In-between Times where no-one knows what day it is. Someone asked me “what days is bins?” and I said “Saturday. But I don’t know what that means.” Today was bins, and they were emptied, and still all is not well in the world. I wanted to write “all is well in…
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Ten Minutes is Enough
I paint every day, come rain or Santa. Hope he was good to you, if that’s your thing. Til the morn, Suzanne 677/700
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Merry Christmas Eve
Season’s Greetings for whatever you celebrate, thank you for showing up to support my art journey. Til the morn, Suzanne 676/700
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Twas The Night Before The Night Before
I started the day with another little oil painting, and the first thing I came up against is something I have come up against frequently, choice paralysis. I heard that phrase somewhere recently and it describes so well what happens sometimes when I really want to paint but can’t decide what. I think the trick…
Thrummie Bizzum 