Tag: painting
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Texture Choices
There was a lot of playing and testing and whatnot went on today, but it’s not exactly coherent or photogenic, so here’s a snippet of the canvas board I was testing ideas on next to the hare I painted yesterday. It was a productive day, even if it doesn’t look like it, and decisions have…
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Pyrrole Orange Hare
I have been trying to fall in love with this sketchbook but it just is not the same as either of the two cheap as chips unbranded ones I had in my stash that I filled and miss. It is not always the case that the better paper is the better paper, sometimes the cheap…
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Going Grey
I have been procrastinating, and I procrastinated again today. In fairness, my procrastination took the form of other creative pursuits, rather than inventing housework, or doomscrolling, but it was still procrastination. I’m not even sure why I was procrastinating, because I knew exactly what my next steps were, with the exception of what I wanted…
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Background Layers
I was hoping to get a bit more of this done today, but it was one of those days when there were deliveries due, and I just don’t settle until they are dealt with. This was made more frustrating because the second delivery made it to right outside my house, and I stood and watched…
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Charcoal and Texture
I don’t know why I don’t use charcoal more often, because I love using it. It’s especially yummy on my yummy textured piece. I’m using a selfie that I have used before as a reference for this one, and I am leaving it here for the day so I can walk in first thing and…
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Linocut Pictish Beastie
Two coats of gesso have unified the texture collage on the canvas, and I left it to dry overnight. I’m obsessed with the muslin texture, but I haven’t started painting on it, so I may change my mind soon enough. I dug out my linocut bits and pieces and reacquainted myself with not gouging pieces…
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Texture Yumminess
I started working on the canvas drill fabric I primed the other day. It’s around 12×16″, so larger than I have been working of late. I taped it to a board and plotted the basic layout in charcoal. The only reason I did this was to have a rough idea where the face is for…
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Beauty Spot
This one needs more than an hour to do the beautiful age lines justice, but this is a good first go. Til the morn, Suzanne 436/500
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Grey Beanie
This is a reference I have drawn previously, but never painted. I don’t smoke, so that’s not why I like it, I just like her attitude. I’m definitely feeling that as I’m watching our institutions destroy our Equality legislation. Protect The Dolls Til the morn, Suzanne 435/500
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Clown
When you start painting a self-portrait and it’s not going the way you like you can either push through the discomfort and ugly phase, or act on an impulse and smear a clown face over it, and that’s what I did today. I could write some things about going beyond the reference, but this was…
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Water-mixable Oil Paints Test
This is my first palette using the set of water-mixable oil paints I got the other day. I have seen mixed reactions to these paints, and I am currently sitting in the positive camp, although not necessarily for the same reasons as other folk. They are similar to oils when they come out of the…
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Teeth
This was an interesting exercise. The reference is in black and white, but it is quite overexposed, leaving not much in the way of value, and no colour clues, so I had quite a lot of room for interpretation. The teeth were quite a challenge, because of the small size of the paper, but I…
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