Tag: my shitty brushes
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Warm-up Sketch
A quick portrait sketch today as I’m a bit tired after a 5am start. I did have my sketching kit accessible during my train station layover, but it was black as pitch, so this is all I have. Til the morn, Suzanne 605/700
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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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Handy Live Model
A live model is a luxury, and an entirely different challenge compared to a static reference photo. No matter how brilliant the sitter is, they will move, or the light will move, or the pose they chose will fatigue muscles. It makes the painting choices much more dynamic. It was fun to do, even if…
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Stumpy Brush
One thing that’s not obvious when I post here is the difference in size between one sketch and another. I have a habit of doing these portrait sketches in an A4 sketchbook, but this one is in A3, so twice the size. “Big head, big head, big head” as Chandler would say. My poor little…
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More Hot Paint
It’s even hotter than yesterday, so I should consider knocking the acrylic painting on the head for a while. I decided this after I was already committed to this piece, tho, so I kept going. The boring parcel of yesterday becomes the interesting basis for this exercise. I cut a piece off the cartridge paper…
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Hot Paint
I did a bit of rearranging today. I have a large box full of canvases in various sizes, but I never use them because the box had a wooded board on top that became a kind of shelf for other things. So I’ve shuffled things around a bit, and maybe I will start using more…
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Triptych
I wasn’t thinking about this figure sketch in context with yesterday’s sketch on the left, but they make a nice spread together, so that’s a bonus. My singular favourite shitty brush and I are perhaps coming to the end of this journey, as the bristles are now about half the original length. Poo. For my…
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Oil Sketch
Day 31 #The100DayProject I didn’t have an hour today, so this is a 30 minute oil sketch using one of my scratchy brushes. It’s probably more of an underpainting than anything else, but it’s done, streak maintained. I would offer up my Morning Sketch to take the edge off, but it was done in 8…
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Changed My Brushes
For my 100 Day Project painting today I used the same reference that I used yesterday, but I mixed things up with my choice of brush. Instead of using the nice Long Flat brushes I have been using for these paintings, I pulled out one of my shitty scruffy cheap brushes. These are the type…
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Three Hundred Days of Art
A little part of me can’t quite believe that I have done this, kept going and made such a significant change for myself. Another small part of me is still thinking I won’t finish the first thirty days, but here I am three hundred days in surveying the queendom of my inner landscape, and bits…
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Showgirl
I did some figure drawing practise today, and I quite like the way this sketch turned out. I was using a larger brush than usual, which made some of the details quite challenging, but that’s the fun of it. Til the morn, Suzanne 238/300
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Comfort Zone
Having a weird migraine day, but managed to motivate myself to do a portrait sketch in my A4 sketchbook. I used my caput mortuum acrylic mix, one of my scratchy brushes, and the background is a gel print using cadmium red light. Til the morn, Suzanne 236/300
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