Tag: painting
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Raw Sienna Mixing
Today I did some skin tones colour mixing. I do a lot of skin tones mixing, and I don’t think I will ever run out of possible combinations. I quite often use yellow ochre, but today I swapped in raw sienna for a change. The palette: raw sienna, naples yellow, cad red, ultramarine, zinc white…
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Tiny Toes
oil on canvas board 6×6″ This was a fun pose to translate onto a small 6″ (20cm) square canvas. Toes! Til the morn, Suzanne 715/800
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Phthalo Highlights
I think she’s done, but I’ll know in the morning. Oil on oil paper, 16×12″ Til the morn, Suzanne 713/800
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Looking Left
This has come out more blue than turquoise on my phone, but it’s a yummy phthalo turquoise for the background. This is the first layer blocking in values and claiming the page, which is 16×12″ oil paper. I’m experimenting with a limited palette: phthalo turquoise, phthalo blue, burnt sienna, cadmium red and white. It’s an…
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One Square Hour
I enjoyed this little oil painting more than the previous ones, so it’s the same lesson as always – repetition brings results. I have a lot of resistance around oil painting, and I think a lot of that is noise, because I do really love the open nature of the paint. There’s also no reason…
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Mini Figure in Oil
This is a tiny painting. It’s 6×6″ (15x15cm) and I don’t know who thinks these things up (me) but I got half way into this little oil painting and started questioning my life choices. The challenge, and it isn’t even really a challenge, it’s just here is a supply of mini canvas boards to do…
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Red Net
16×12″ acrylic on 300gsm paper I think he’s finished, but you never know, I might go back in tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 704/800
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First Pass Portrait
There’s a lot to fix, but this is the first pass, and all the paper is claimed, and I am enjoying where it is going. Beards and facial hare are not my favourite thing, but the only way to get better is to get better. I’m using a Zorn palette with cadmium red as the…
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Not Pretty
I really love the way the face ended up almost grotesque. I could have gone in and fixed it, made it pretty, but I prefer the disruption. Til the morn, Suzanne 701/800
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Terms and Conditions
I have been reading the Terms and Conditions of a couple of things I am thinking about submitting work to, and I have thoughts. Now, I have been seeing a few things online about juried shows and competitions, and how, of course, entrants are paying for the thing without much chance of being selected, and…
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Realism and Abstract Tussling in my Brain
I finished this portrait in my A3 portrait practise sketchbook. I started her yesterday, and I wasn’t really liking the way she was going, but I came back to her today and brought her to a conclusion. A Cassandra for our times. No-one will listen to her. When I moved onto the second canvas, which…
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More Hands
Another varied day in my studio thanks to this idea of trying to do art before everything else. I wasn’t quite as disciplined this morning, but I caught myself and got back on track. I made a concertina sketchbook yesterday, and it’s brilliant. I did some fun play in there, and that got the juices…
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