Tag: figure with hands
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Look For The Shapes
The reason I love this muse (Dinoopis) is because painting her means I can’t escape looking for shapes and values. That area around the hands is just so complex that you have to tell your brain to look, really look. For me that has become a meditation practise, switching my brain to another mode. I…
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Hands and Hands
Painting at a dining table instead of my studio, so embracing the limitations. I’ve left the hands for tomorrow, or another day, because daylight runs out this far north. Til the morn, Suzanne 637/700
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Very Handy
I was hoping to get a longer painting session in today as I am dogsitting, but the angle I’m at sitting at a dining table painting is irritating whatever is niggling in my shoulder, so I decided to call it a day after the basic blocking in was done. Perhaps all the ball launching for…
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Fiddling with Fingers
I spent a fair bit of time messing around in my sketchbook today doing productive procrastination. I was avoiding tackling the changes I wanted to make on this, mostly because I thought I was going to mess up the layers. Perfectionism on an experimental painting is just silly. I eventually got bold and went in…
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Pushing and Pulling
I’m having a lot of fun with this giant painting, even if I’m not having a lot of fun with that top hand. There will definitely be changes happening there tomorrow. It’s a whole different process with massive paper, big brushes, and much more paint. The layers are building up nicely as I’m pushing and…
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Satisfied Sigh
I’m finally happy with a version of this pose. I think I’ve figured out that she is slightly tilted away on the left side (her right hand) and her hands are not the same distance from the viewer. I used a very limited palette of unbleached titanium, raw umber and French ultramarine for this one,…
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Reflecting
Two versions of the same reference. For some reason I did the first one in my A4 sketchbook, even though there’s a hand, so it meets the criteria for my A3 sketchbook. The background was already there, from using up paint at some point, and it worked quite well. The second painting is in the…
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Sponge and Painty
I started today’s practice with a colour mixing exercise, but I was not in the mood for swatching in grids, so I shelved the sketchbook and used the paint for some figure painting. This was painted using sponge brushes, which don’t give you much space for perfectionism, and are just lots of fun to use.…
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Comparison Sketchbook Spread
Yesterday (L) compared with today (R). Yesterday I used vermillion, cad yellow, and cobalt blue for my palette, and today I switched the cobalt for ultramarine, so it’s a nice spread for comparing the difference a single colour can make. I inadvertently tested out the difference between two similar brushes, but this was unintentional. I…
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Introvert
I painted quite a bit today, and by the time I was trying to wrap this one up, whatever is going on with my painting arm was rebelling. There are a few bits where I finished up with my non-dominant hand, so that was fun. I was trying out a brush I’ve had sitting around…
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Back Off
I sketched and painted back of the head views today, and then finished up with this one incorporating the back view and the hands theme. A real beezer of complexity, this one, which I made even more difficult for myself with my choice of brush. I used a Daler-Rowney XL Filbert brush, size 50. It’s…
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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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