Tag: mixed media
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Pan Pastels Portrait Set
I had quite a productive day today and worked on several things, but the highlight of the day was the arrival of a set of pan pastels. I don’t usually buy sets of things, but the offer price was too good to pass up, and the only colour I already had was the white, so…
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Grasp Too
Following on from yesterday’s study, I used the same reference and changed the palette slightly by swapping the black with ultramarine, and adding pyrrole red. I really like the pyrrole red added to the background, and I like the way both paintings sit together in the spread, which I haven’t taken a photo of, I…
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Grasp
This is the first time I have used tube black in this sketchbook, having been experimenting with chromatic blacks as a side-shoot of this project. It definitely gives a different feel to a piece. I threw some yellow on the page too, because I never use yellow in a very yellow way. I didn’t like…
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Honing Ms Drips
There was a lot of playing in sketchbooks today, and lots of ideas came out of that, and there will hopefully be further play and exploration going on there. I realised that I had been avoiding this canvas for some reason, no idea why, so I put it up on the easel and pushed and…
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Twisting Twirls
Experimenting with yesterday’s happy accident, and thinking I’m going to keep experimenting with this process. I predict an art supplies purchase coming up, as I only have two colours plus black and white of these pan pastels. I don’t even have a turquoise one. Shocking. Til the morn, Suzanne 630/700
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Clear Gesso Rescue
I started the day doing some fun sketchbook practise abstracting shapes from some landscape photos. This is not my usual practise, and it was a lot of fun. Once I was done there was some leftover paint, so I used it up in my A3 sketchbook to start a background. I was especially taken with…
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Pan Pastels Mixed Media Figure
I have watched a few demonstrations using pan pastels, and I’ve followed a couple of classes, and never really found a way with the medium that feels natural to me. I do really like using them, even though I have this weird conflict with dry mediums because I can’t be arsed with the whole sealing…
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I love drips
Layers and layers of drips in a variety of media got things a bit out of control, and became a problem to solve. Drying time was long, but I eventually got back in to start pulling the figure back out of the drips. I’m liking the way this one is going. Til the morn, Suzanne…
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Get It On Paper
The clocks changed overnight, and we reverted to GMT for the winter, and I am discombobulated, naturally. I had an idea, and this sketchbook page is the start of working out the idea. It’s definitely not a finished and resolved page, it’s just scratching an idea onto a page for later – what sketchbooks are…
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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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A bit of this and that
I took a photo of some of my recent things that are sitting around the studio room, as it looked kind of interesting together. I edited in a couple of pics of today’s sketchbook spreads as they’re more interesting than my art tables – my studio is not a curated, instagrammable space, and I had…
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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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