Tag: limited palette
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Quatro
Mini portrait umber four is complete. This is for Week 4 of Let’s Face It with Laurie Johnson. Model & Photographer: Sasha Sears Source: Museum/SKTCHY app I’m in catch-up mode with the classes at the moment, but I’m not stressing about it. I’m painting every day, and that’s what I’m focused on. I really enjoyed…
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Timed Portrait Exercises
The timed sketch to start the day happened again. Since I had prepped some paper for a mini paintings exercise, I decided to use the first reference as my reference for the drawing. I gave myself twenty minutes. The painting is on 12×16″ watercolour paper that has been prepped for oil painting, and divided into…
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Making Fake Believable
Today was all about the hair, and a few tweaks to the lips and eyes, but I wasn’t in the mood for doing much to the face. I think what’s left to do to the face needs to happen at the end, once all the colours everywhere else are in place. This is a really…
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Looking Up Or Eye Rolling
I spent some time yesterday making collage fodder with a view to using it for this class project, and then got up and did something completely different from the plan. I made the background, then sketched this cute quine in with a few charcoal marks, and then did my underpainting with caput mortuum. Next I…
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Massive Crown
I’m continuing in the current motivated phase, which I am thoroughly enjoying, and today I finished the portrait I started the other day, and did the first main chunk of work on yesterday. 12×16″ oil on paper I immediately started working on another painting. It not a class, and I only sketched in the underpainting,…
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Oily Practise
I carried on with my portrait in oils with the interesting eye-roll reference. I think she’s done for now, although I might come back and fiddle a bit more, but for now I am happy with this exercise. I was thinking about my Word of the Year today – practise – and the way I…
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Eye Roll First Pass
Lots still to do with this one, but I got further than I expected, and I’m quite happy with how it is going. Til the morn, Suzanne 264/300
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Sometimes the Worst is the Best
I am highly amused at the fact I spent most of my art time painting the Let’s Face It class portrait in oils, fannying about with values, and repeatedly reminding myself this was not a colour exercise, it’s a value exercise. I was pretty happy with my sketch, but as the oil paint moved around,…
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Woman With Fringe
All the sketches and paintings and play that danced out of a single reference photo, and across the pages of this blog, are part of the story of this finished painting. I think we get caught up in the presentation of art on social media as being fast, instant, easy, and maybe that’s true for…
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Third Pass Nearly There
I have to laugh at myself. A while back I made myself a stay-wet palette, and even wrote a blog about it. I tested it out and decided it would work perfectly for doing larger paintings where I need to save mixed colours for the next day. Yesterday I worked on this painting, and I…
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First Pass Keep Going
Yesterday’s photo appears much more blue than the actual canvas, and my phone seems to have a tendency to do that. Today’s pic is much more like it for the background. This is the first pass of this painting. I’m just playing with the limited palette I chose, and blocking in values. The reference photo…
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Blue Hair Day
Today I did some studio housekeeping, tidying overgrown piles, washing some gesso brushes, putting manky water in the cat litter bucket. Very glamourous. Then I worked in some sketchbooks, and procrastinated about virtually everything, and it was not creative or productive procrastination, it was unadulterated overwhelm at the state of the world. Eventually I got…
Thrummie Bizzum 