Tag: oil painting
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Dusky Pink
Day 21 of my alla prima adventure. They say it takes 21 days to make a habit, so I guess I’m in the habit of being an oil painter. Today I used the Zorn palette again, and this one went towards the pinkish reddish corner. I was trying the scrubby, rubbish brushes technique again, and…
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Side Eye
Day 20 of the 100 Day Project This morning I was feeling all motivated for a good day of painting, meaning to get started early, and had the feeling I was in an energised frame of mine, and more likely to pull that off. I was cracking on, ticking the boxes, and then my bliss…
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More In Profile
Day 19 I like this more a few hours after finishing it than I did when I finished it. I go through that with some of them. I did this with the Zorn Palette, but added in raw umber and used zinc white instead of titanium. I may use a different palette when I give…
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Day 18 in Profile
Day 18 of 100 Days of Alla Prima. This feels much more challenging than last year’s 100 Day Project. I’m also finding the social media element challenging, that definitely creates much more of a tendency to get lost in self-criticism chatter. Til the morn, Suzanne 389/400
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Zorn Palette Play
Day 17 of my 100 Day Project. Today I focused on how I was putting paint down, and trying to be more choosy to avoid ending up with thick paint that I find harder to resolve or correct. I’m trying different things with this project, different brushes, different colour palettes, and so on, and making…
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Day 16 of 100 mini oil portraits
Day 16 Til the morn, Suzanne 387/400
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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…
Thrummie Bizzum 