Tag: limited palette
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All Fingers and Toes
I spent a lot of time colour mixing today, and making notes in my sketchbook, and then I worked on these two, and I think they are working well as a pair. I have been looking for another image to use for a third, but haven’t decided on that yet. I have chosen the other…
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Haunted
I have been experimenting with different reds as grounds, and I’ve also been trying different versions of the very limited palette in this painting, trying different reds to see what I like. Today I used pyrrole red, and swapped the unbleached titanium for titanium white. I quite like it, and it is definitely a response…
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Limited plus quinacridone red
Today I took the limited palette I used in this painting and I added quinacridone red to the palette. I’m going to try adding different reds to this palette to see what happens, and which ones I like the most. Til the morn, Suzanne 611/700
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Sketchbook Filled
I finished a sketchbook today. Woo hoo. I started it in March, so that’s not bad going. I had three spreads, or six pages left, and they are now painted. I played with the “ancient palette” again, and I can tell you that I don’t like it on a dusky pink ground, but that’s precisely…
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Earthy Palettes
I am trying out a couple of different palettes here based on earthy hues. I saw something somewhere about an “ancient palette”, but I can’t find it again, so I’m working off memory and imagination. The portrait on the left is a very limited palette: unbleached titanium, caput mortuum, raw sienna and olive green. The…
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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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Should I Call Her The Markets?
Daily practise is many things, the obvious being improving skills, which includes the skill of being able to let it go more easily when things don’t go to plan. Daily practise starts to yield bodies of work that help with deciding what you like, what you don’t like, and what you want to say with…
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Disembodied
One of the rules for portrait painting is to give your subject a neck and shoulders, and not just have them floating and disembodied. So I broke that rule. Til the morn, Suzanne 414/500
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Changed The Palette
For today’s shenanigans I chose a different palette and carried on with the same selfie I’ve been painting from. It’s very weird to me that my self-portraits are getting more likes over on Bluesky than my other portraits. This adds to the particular vibe that goes along with painting self-portraits. The palette I chose is…
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Side Eye
Day 20 of the 100 Day Project This morning I was feeling all motivated for a good day of painting, meaning to get started early, and had the feeling I was in an energised frame of mine, and more likely to pull that off. I was cracking on, ticking the boxes, and then my bliss…
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Skeleton Hands Selfie
The Let’s Face It class with Rose Cameron for this week, combined with my 100 Day Project. Rose used a selfie with sunglasses and one hand for her portrait, I met that brief with a slight twist 😉 These glasses are so fun. I bought them ages ago after seeing them on Strictly, and of…
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Pouts and Spirals
I had a really good day in the studio today, one of those days where I felt really inspired and productive. I started, as has become habit, with my twenty minute morning sketch, and that went ok. It wasn’t a winner, but that happens. After that I did a little studio storage rearranging, and moved…
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