Tag: oil painting
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Oil Sticks Unwrapped
A long time ago I bought what I believe are the original version of oils in stick form, the W&N Oil Bars. I mean it was so long ago I could probably sell them as “vintage art supplies”, definitely last century. I probably used them a couple of times, and they are unlikely to be…
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Beauty Spot
This one needs more than an hour to do the beautiful age lines justice, but this is a good first go. Til the morn, Suzanne 436/500
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Grey Beanie
This is a reference I have drawn previously, but never painted. I don’t smoke, so that’s not why I like it, I just like her attitude. I’m definitely feeling that as I’m watching our institutions destroy our Equality legislation. Protect The Dolls Til the morn, Suzanne 435/500
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Clown
When you start painting a self-portrait and it’s not going the way you like you can either push through the discomfort and ugly phase, or act on an impulse and smear a clown face over it, and that’s what I did today. I could write some things about going beyond the reference, but this was…
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Teeth
This was an interesting exercise. The reference is in black and white, but it is quite overexposed, leaving not much in the way of value, and no colour clues, so I had quite a lot of room for interpretation. The teeth were quite a challenge, because of the small size of the paper, but I…
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This Week’s Theme Is…
Challenging expressions. Day51/100 I’m tempted to just stick with this one reference photo for the week, as I think I can get a lot out of this one. I’ve chosen a few for the week, tho, just to carry on with the experiment of planning and theming. I really wanted to be working on a…
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Fifty Days Fifty Portraits
Day 50 of the 100 Day Project and here are all fifty portraits. There was one portrait that I completed over two days because I was having a pain issue, and there was another day early on where I was so appalled at what I painted that I painted a second portrait, so I’m including…
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Pearls
With the exception of a few minutes around the eye, I used one large long flat for this, and it was a good challenge. Til the morn, Suzanne 419/500
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Negative Space
Day 46 of the 100 Day Project. I used the Zorn Palette again, mostly because there were leftover little piles of paint that I thought I could use up. I went through an ugly phase and decided it was the wrong palette, but the clock was ticking, so I had to work the palette, and…
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Success and Interference
Last night I spent a little time looking at reference photos, and decided on profiles as a theme for this week. I set up a note in my phone designating a reference for each day, and made some other notes about things I’d like to get stuck into if I manage to give myself more…
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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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