Tag: figure drawing
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Folding In On Self
Yesterday’s sketchbook painting with the black gesso ground inspired this one, but instead of using the black gesso I painted layers of red violet and fluorescent magenta, and then used those colours with titanium white to create the lighter values to bring out the figure. I started out limiting myself to using a 2″ wide…
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Skint Knee
Today I pulled out an old tube of Crimson red acrylic that has been in my stash for years, mostly because the lid was absolutely stuck. I have tried a few times to get it open and failed, but today I persevered and eventually managed to get it to budge. I don’t know what was…
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Foot Thing
I spent some time today rearranging a few of my shelves, moving things that I use into more accessible spaces, and less useful things out of the way. I found a few things I had forgotten about, and I should probably do a shelf emptying task once a month just to reacquaint myself with things.…
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More All Fingers and Pose
I returned to this painting today to do some more work on it, correcting some values, and working on the hands. I’m not finished with it yet, but I’m happy with where I got to. Til the morn, Suzanne 573/600
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Thoughts on Critic, Creativity plus Banksy
I spent a lot of time today journaling, and looking through my sketchbooks, and thinking about my creative process, and then I had a real struggle getting to painting. I listened to what was going on internally, and it was all very negative about how I had wasted my time, and failed to be creative…
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Purple Toes
I had a fun day in the studio today. I spent around an hour working in my mark making sketchbook while on a Zoom meeting with some other artists. I filled three sketchbook spreads with a variety of marks and I have some interesting ideas for taking things a bit further. I was colour-mixing after…
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Incredible ;)
I was doing some colour mixing with a red that I don’t often use, and the results were, shall we say, interesting. I remain unconvinced, and the tube of red paint may remain rarely used. I may have a different view in the morning. I do my best not to waste paint, so I used…
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Body Emerging
I liked what happened yesterday in my sketchbook, so I decided to try something similar on one of the canvas boards I have a pile of. I am not in a great frame of body today, but I’ve got the basics of this body lightly painted onto the background. Believe me, she’s in a better…
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Painting Shapes Meditation
This is a really good reference for pulling your brain out of the world and into just looking and seeing and trying to make sense of the shapes. I have that privilege, many don’t. Til the morn, Suzanne 561/600
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Snatching Time
Painting while dog-sitting. He’s a bit of a nervous Beastie, so I was aware things might be interrupted, but he’s been very good. I got another version of the pose I painted yesterday, and a quick gesture sketch (below). I packed the wrong tube of blue for my limited palette, but I’ve decided that I…
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Loch Lee and Figure Study
Today was a long, filling-the-well day. We travelled to Glenesk and walked around 6 miles altogether in fairly hot weather that was forecast as cooler and a chance of rain. We did get some sprinkles of rain, and the clouds came in about, but it was still hot. You may have picked up that I…
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Hot Dry Paint
Another few days of limited supplies far from home, and unexpected very hot weather. The paint was drying on the gel plate before I could even get it to the paper, so I kind of gave up. Til the morn, Suzanne 558/600
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