Tag: painting
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This Week’s Theme Is…
Challenging expressions. Day51/100 I’m tempted to just stick with this one reference photo for the week, as I think I can get a lot out of this one. I’ve chosen a few for the week, tho, just to carry on with the experiment of planning and theming. I really wanted to be working on a…
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Fifty Days Fifty Portraits
Day 50 of the 100 Day Project and here are all fifty portraits. There was one portrait that I completed over two days because I was having a pain issue, and there was another day early on where I was so appalled at what I painted that I painted a second portrait, so I’m including…
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Pearls
With the exception of a few minutes around the eye, I used one large long flat for this, and it was a good challenge. Til the morn, Suzanne 419/500
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Negative Space
Day 46 of the 100 Day Project. I used the Zorn Palette again, mostly because there were leftover little piles of paint that I thought I could use up. I went through an ugly phase and decided it was the wrong palette, but the clock was ticking, so I had to work the palette, and…
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Success and Interference
Last night I spent a little time looking at reference photos, and decided on profiles as a theme for this week. I set up a note in my phone designating a reference for each day, and made some other notes about things I’d like to get stuck into if I manage to give myself more…
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Hanging
Aside from oil painting today, I revisited this canvas board and did some reworking of the hands and head. They aren’t the way I want them, yet, but they are closer than they were. I also worked on the shadows, to give a bit of depth. There’s still some work to be done, but it…
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Me Again
Day 38/100 Back to this selfie for my one hour portrait today. Apparently it looks like me, according to Mither and Himself, and I guess they would know. Himself thinks it’s a bit long in the face, which reminded me of childhood, and being asked “why for the lang face, quine?” I’m still discombobulated from…
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Four Hundred Days
Day 29 of the 100 Day Project. I tried a different process for laying down the paint today, and although it hasn’t been entirely successful, I liked what I learned. I think the process is perhaps a challenge to complete in a hour, or perhaps more practise will make it easier. I could have painted…
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Smol Me
I had a battle with procrastination again today, but I eventually got there, around about the time the Noise Men started cleaning up their mess, and looking like they are finished. Yay. I decided on another selfie, and used a palette from a couple of weeks back – yellow ochre, alizarin crimson, caput mortuum, phthalo…
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A Day
Day 26 of 100 Another from a selfie while having hot flashes and dealing with someone pumping music into my house from their van. This is not usual for our street, and it’s quite stressful. I usually do these 100 Day Project pieces in an hour, I gave up after 40 minutes because I was…
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Blue
Day 24 I like the Morning Sketch better than the painting, but the fact I made anything at all today is the win. The news from every corner is devastating. Horrific. Til the morn, Suzanne 395/400
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Painting From a Sketch
Day 23 Instead of using a photo for reference, I used my Morning Sketch as a reference for this, which was interesting in terms of loosening the internal dialogue. I played around with the oil paints and mixes left on my palette from yesterday, and that lush background colour came from phthalo turquoise and quinacridone…
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