Tag: painting
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Make It Stop
The reference I chose today reflects my mood when I opened my phone this morning and saw footage of that Vance person haverin jobbies about Europe. No. The things that he says are happening are just not true. FFS Til the morn, Suzanne 393/400
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Dusky Pink
Day 21 of my alla prima adventure. They say it takes 21 days to make a habit, so I guess I’m in the habit of being an oil painter. Today I used the Zorn palette again, and this one went towards the pinkish reddish corner. I was trying the scrubby, rubbish brushes technique again, and…
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Side Eye
Day 20 of the 100 Day Project This morning I was feeling all motivated for a good day of painting, meaning to get started early, and had the feeling I was in an energised frame of mine, and more likely to pull that off. I was cracking on, ticking the boxes, and then my bliss…
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More In Profile
Day 19 I like this more a few hours after finishing it than I did when I finished it. I go through that with some of them. I did this with the Zorn Palette, but added in raw umber and used zinc white instead of titanium. I may use a different palette when I give…
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Screams At Fat (paint)
Twenty minute warm-up sketch was a precursor to the feelings I was having doing the one hour portrait for the 100 Day Project. I did not have any sort of plan, and hadn’t even done a warm-up sketch of this reference, I just dived in. I got a little over-zealous with the fat over lean…
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Pouts and Spirals
I had a really good day in the studio today, one of those days where I felt really inspired and productive. I started, as has become habit, with my twenty minute morning sketch, and that went ok. It wasn’t a winner, but that happens. After that I did a little studio storage rearranging, and moved…
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Changed My Brushes
For my 100 Day Project painting today I used the same reference that I used yesterday, but I mixed things up with my choice of brush. Instead of using the nice Long Flat brushes I have been using for these paintings, I pulled out one of my shitty scruffy cheap brushes. These are the type…
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Irritated
Morning timed sketching is so good. The sketches themselves may not always land, but the process and practise has shifted my creativity to a better place. For Day 10 of the 100 Day Project I used the same reference as the sketch, and the same Zorn palette as yesterday. I decided just to use my…
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Selfie Reacts to the News
I had a different reference in mind for my 100 Day Project piece today, but I was not over the moon with the twenty minute sketch I did from it, and decided to try with a selfie instead. I am not sure why I thought the would be more fun than the other image. I…
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Day 8 100 Days of Alla Prima
Day 8 I’m enjoying this more than I was a week ago. Til the morn, Suzanne 379/400
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Good Habits
I am singing the praises of the twenty minute sketch habit today, it really has changed my days for the better. By giving me a set thing to do first thing, I don’t end up overthinking and procrastinating about what I’m going to create, I just get the sketch done and the rest of the…
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Rules and Play
My 100 Day Project continues. Alla prima painting feels intuitive to me, but it does have some general rules, guidelines, whatever you want to call them, and I am using this project to figure out what those rules mean in terms of how to put the paint down. I mean I know the rules, and…
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