Tag: painting
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Ziggy
Ziggy looking like butter wouldn’t melt. Don’t be fooled. Most of today has been out and about, first in art supplies shops, then making friends with lots of old trees. I don’t live near art supplies shops, so I relished the visit. I did not make it out unburdened. Til the morn, Suzanne 495/500
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Triptych
I wasn’t thinking about this figure sketch in context with yesterday’s sketch on the left, but they make a nice spread together, so that’s a bonus. My singular favourite shitty brush and I are perhaps coming to the end of this journey, as the bristles are now about half the original length. Poo. For my…
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Poised Crouch
I’m still not in my usual spot, with a small amount of limited supplies. My sketchbook is propped up on a tub of bird food on a dining table, and I really don’t sit to paint much. So of course I chose a complex figure pose, which I started to curse after the first minute,…
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Arses
Today I have been musing about an argument I once had with a history lecturer about empires. Their argument was that of course empires did not exist anymore, and I used the course-specified definitions of empire to illustrate my argument that this was not true. One of the examples I used to illustrate my argument…
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Handmade Grey
I mixed an interesting blue-grey today. It’s not a payne’s grey, but it’s got a similar feel. I used caput mortuum violet, phthalo blue and van dyke brown for the mix, and white to get some lighter values. This is a horsie I started on a wood panel ages ago with just a rough sketch,…
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Complex Horse and Cloth Hare Head
The last thing I did today was sketch this horse in my sketchbook. It’s a lovely, challenging reference that I’ve come back to a few times. It’s very good for the practise of reducing complex things to simple shapes. Reducing complex things to simple shapes was also the theme of one of the other projects…
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Elphin Is Political
Someone might suggest that yesterday’s boat painting was too political, and they’d prefer I stick to badgers. I’ve had exactly those sorts of things said to me, so it’s not really about “might”. Badgers are political too, sad to say. Their very existence and right to life has been the subject of political debate for…
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Painting Elphin
Sketchbook painting using one of my photos of Elphin the taxidermy badger that I took at the wee sketching group event a few weeks ago. I’m playing with colour, and using turquoise as the almost mother colour because, like the badger, I am a creature of habit. I was using one of my gel plates…
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Hare On Canvas WIP
(I’m playing around with the theme settings, but I’m not settled on which change I want to make, or if I want to make a change at all. It has all gone a bit purple.) I did a fair bit of procrastinating and painting other things, backgrounds, before I got stuck in with this. I…
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Wet Hare
Most of today’s output was canvas prep and backgrounds, but I decided at the last minute to use the small canvas board I was using yesterday for testing ideas, and stick a hare on it. I say stick a hare on it, I sketched it on and then dislodged most of it off with the…
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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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