Tag: oil painting
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The Cat’s Whiskers
100 Day Project Day 62 I finished a painting today, and I know how I feel about that. I started another project that involved journaling that brought up some unexpected darkness, and I know how I feel about that. I know how I feel about all the things that are happening in the world today,…
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Artist Influence
100 Day Project Day 60 I confess that I got a new book today, or at least new to me. It’s a retrospective of the Scottish artist Pat Douthwaite, an artist I am currently obsessed with. Douthwaite trained as a dancer, then became an artist in later life, which is just absolutely right up my…
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Cat Girl
100 Day Project Day 59 I have been procrastinating about this painting for ten days. I had the substrate prepped, and the figure sketched, and now I see from scrolling back through this blog that it really is ten days. If I had a pound for every reason and excuse – they are all excuses,…
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Raw umber and charcoal
100 Day Project Day 45 In a wild attempt to produce three class paintings so I can catch up with Let’s Face It, I worked on two paintings today. I had prepped both the substrates the other day, so I had no excuses, but you can be rest-assured that all manner of procrastination was undertaken.…
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Procrastination Summited
100 Day Project Day 28 Today I was absolutely committed to finishing the oil painting class that has been hanging around forever. It didn’t need a lot done to finish it, it’s just that it ended up in the Procrastination Place, so every step ended up seeming more monumental than it really was. I enjoyed…
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Figure Version 5.0
100 Day Project Day 18 Feeling a bit wordless as I’ve already written a post over on Substack today. Paint wise, today I have been working on two things. The first is the contiuning saga (in my head) of an oil painting I am doing for a Let’s Face It class. It’s an interesting one…
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Sketching With Oils
100 Day Project Day 13 I took a long time to get going with any sort of art today, despite having scribbled a list of things I wanted to get into to have a full-on art day, hopefully without also flooding the bathroom. It’s just the natural dust settling after my two days of creative…
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Scent of a Rose finished painting
100 Day Project Day 8 I think I am done with my oil painting. The photo isn’t perfect because some places on the painting are wet, and also we have bright sunshine and this is just a pic for this diary. I don’t paint in oils very often, and I am quite pleased with this,…
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Procrastination Cessation
100 Day Project Day 7 I wholly recommend naming your procrastination publicly on a daily basis, as I finally broke through and opened a tube of oil paint today. I tried all the excuses have been running in my head for the past however long it is, things like “oh it’s too late in the…
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Painting Over Perfectionism
Yesterday I spent some time on the oil portrait I have been working on. I am not much used to working in oils, so the learning curve is, well, curvy, and steep. I realise I have become quite comfortable in making art fast, and I enjoy that process, and it definitely helps me be loose and…
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