Tag: oil painting
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Know The Feeling
I like to challenge myself. I have sketched this one a few times, but decided it was too complex for a one hour small portrait, and it probably still is, but I enjoyed giving it a go. That’s Day 15 of 100 done. Til the morn, Suzanne 386/400
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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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Screams At Fat (paint)
Twenty minute warm-up sketch was a precursor to the feelings I was having doing the one hour portrait for the 100 Day Project. I did not have any sort of plan, and hadn’t even done a warm-up sketch of this reference, I just dived in. I got a little over-zealous with the fat over lean…
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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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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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Irritated
Morning timed sketching is so good. The sketches themselves may not always land, but the process and practise has shifted my creativity to a better place. For Day 10 of the 100 Day Project I used the same reference as the sketch, and the same Zorn palette as yesterday. I decided just to use my…
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Selfie Reacts to the News
I had a different reference in mind for my 100 Day Project piece today, but I was not over the moon with the twenty minute sketch I did from it, and decided to try with a selfie instead. I am not sure why I thought the would be more fun than the other image. I…
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Day 8 100 Days of Alla Prima
Day 8 I’m enjoying this more than I was a week ago. Til the morn, Suzanne 379/400
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Good Habits
I am singing the praises of the twenty minute sketch habit today, it really has changed my days for the better. By giving me a set thing to do first thing, I don’t end up overthinking and procrastinating about what I’m going to create, I just get the sketch done and the rest of the…
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Rules and Play
My 100 Day Project continues. Alla prima painting feels intuitive to me, but it does have some general rules, guidelines, whatever you want to call them, and I am using this project to figure out what those rules mean in terms of how to put the paint down. I mean I know the rules, and…
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Back To It
I got myself a new medium from Gamblin that is solvent free. It’s supposed to be a substitute for Liquin, and it definitely doesn’t smell like Liquin, which stinks, but it’s my first try with it, so I am not sure if I like it. I switched things up today in a couple of other…
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Early Morning Motivation
Today’s big challenge was getting this done before the arrival of a dog. He belongs to my folks, and this is his first sleepover since they adopted him. I didn’t think it was feasible to do timed oil painting with a somewhat high-energy dog, so I got up early and did not procrastinate, and got…
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