Tag: painting portraits
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Sometimes the Worst is the Best
I am highly amused at the fact I spent most of my art time painting the Let’s Face It class portrait in oils, fannying about with values, and repeatedly reminding myself this was not a colour exercise, it’s a value exercise. I was pretty happy with my sketch, but as the oil paint moved around,…
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From Sketchbook to Painting
I was at risk of spending all my time doing more sketches of this reference, but I started on the painting proper, even though I only had time for a graphite sketch and a first block in of the shadows with raw umber. The graphite sketch was really bothering me, but the paint has improved…
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Three Brushes Three Sketches
Today I have been working in my sketchbook doing multiple sketches of the same reference photo. I have mostly been using my trusty caput mortuum sketch blend, although I did do one sketch in graphite. This is a Let’s Face It class, and the reference is the artist herself, so I’m setting myself the challenge…
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Third Pass Nearly There
I have to laugh at myself. A while back I made myself a stay-wet palette, and even wrote a blog about it. I tested it out and decided it would work perfectly for doing larger paintings where I need to save mixed colours for the next day. Yesterday I worked on this painting, and I…
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First Pass Keep Going
Yesterday’s photo appears much more blue than the actual canvas, and my phone seems to have a tendency to do that. Today’s pic is much more like it for the background. This is the first pass of this painting. I’m just playing with the limited palette I chose, and blocking in values. The reference photo…
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