Tag: painting
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Twenty Minute Paint Dash
There was a lot going on today, and I only managed a twenty minute window for painting. I hate this pose, which means I will be going back to it again until I find what it is I am looking for. The first thing I will be looking for is another hand under that chin,…
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Sunday Batching
The only way to decide if something is going to work is to try it out, which is what’s happening on these canvas boards. I was trying to get the gel plate into play today but either the heat or the humidity scuppered that plan. These are very messy, lots more to do, but the…
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All Fingers And Pose
Cobalt blue and caput mortuum make a satisfying mix for this luscious pose in my continued season of hands studies. Dinoopis is on hiatus at the moment, but she is my favourite muse, and creates the most interesting figure references. This is in my A3 sketchbook, with acrylic sludge as the ground, which I am…
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Quinacridone Muse
She’s all fingers and toes, and if the paint was quinacridone rose I could make a poem, but I didn’t think of that, so here she is in quinacridone magenta, which is about as much to die for as this juicy pose. Til the morn, Suzanne 551/600
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Cobalt By Accident
I pulled out the wrong blue and it was on the gel plate palette before I noticed. I ended up liking the mistake, and enjoyed the shadows I got from it. I love a happy accident. Til the morn, Suzanne 549/600
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Cool Moves
This is my first go with this reference, and it was really fun to do. Til the morn, Suzanne 548/600
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Sketching Hares Day
Sketching hares today. Til the morn, Suzanne 547/600
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Figuring It Out
I spent some time looking over all the work I have done on this hands studies and figure with hands project as I felt like I was a bit stuck. I made some notes about things that I liked from all the different approaches, and things that I didn’t like, and tried to figure out…
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Storm, Finally
The heatwave finally broke into a massive thunderstorm that went on for ages. There’s cool air tonight, and I am hoping for a good sleep. Til the morn, Suzanne 544/600
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Handy Live Model
A live model is a luxury, and an entirely different challenge compared to a static reference photo. No matter how brilliant the sitter is, they will move, or the light will move, or the pose they chose will fatigue muscles. It makes the painting choices much more dynamic. It was fun to do, even if…
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Expressive Arms
The question of the day was “do I need to order more Turquoise Green?” The answer may yet end up being Yes, but I do have a host of different versions of blue turquoises, and various yellows, so I went with mixing, not ordering. This delicious mix came from Phthalo Blue Green Shade and Cad…
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Reach
We have no internet, other than via mobile phone. As is typical, the ISP doesn’t think there is an outage, but we have no internet, and if it isn’t an outage, there will be an engineer on Tuesday. Tuesday 😶 No internet, no TV, no printer. It’ll be like the 1970s. Lol. There’s always paint,…
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